IT Engineer

Foundational Industries

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Foundational is building a network of AI-native, autonomous factories for modern contract manufacturing — reshoring critical supply chains so companies can produce high-quality products domestically, quickly, and at competitive cost. Recent breakthroughs in robotics and physical AI have shifted autonomous manufacturing from theoretical to deployable, and we're focused on operationalizing these capabilities at scale during a decisive decade for American industrial leadership.

This person keeps the factory floor's IT systems running — the shop-floor network, connectivity, the local systems, and the flow of data from equipment into the systems that depend on it.

Requirements

• Hands on and industrial networking plus endpoint fleet management (Windows and Linux) experience
• Working fluency in industrial protocols (i.e. MTConnect, OPC-UA, Modbus etc)
• Systems administration: local servers, authentication, backup, and restore validation.
• Programming expertise (.NET environments, VS, Python, C#, SQL and related)
• Security discipline on the floor — segmentation, hardening, and patching under production constraints

Responsibilities

• The site's network, edge compute, and physical IT infrastructure installed and kept operational — cabling, switches, server room, power, cooling, UPS, and local network services (DNS/DHCP/NTP).
• Connectivity deployed across the floor — industrial gateways and edge devices, protocol integration (MTConnect, OPC-UA, or I/O for legacy equipment)
• Core systems (i.e. ERP, scheduling, traceability etc ) operated at target uptime, users provisioned, and shop floor support delivered so operators are never blocked
• Data integrity maintained at the source — connectivity monitored, clocks synchronized across equipment
• Security controls implemented locally and evidence collected — segmentation enforced, endpoints hardened and patched without downtime, anomalies isolated and escalated.
• New sites or production lines brought onto the standard platform in an orderly sequence

Benefits

• base
• bonus
• equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed