Do the whole job, not a slice of it
At a five-person shop, you don’t hand your design to another department. You quote it, model it, build it, run it off, and stand next to it at the customer’s plant.
Small team size, full-scope work
Most machine-design jobs give you a corner of a project. Here you get the whole thing — concept, CAD, drawings, purchasing, assembly, debug, and the drive to the customer when it ships. It’s the fastest way we know to grow a complete engineer, and it’s how everyone here works, from the newest hire to the founder.
We keep the team small on purpose. Work moves fast because the person next to you can answer your question and projects don’t pass between departments. Our own in-house software is built to give us large company capacity and quality on the little things — so your time goes to actual engineering.
We take work life balance seriously. True North was built around family-work priorities, and twenty-five years later that’s still how schedules get made. We work hard, eat pizza together, take the occasional team trip, and go home at a reasonable hour.
A lunch at the then-new officeThe honest pitch
No ping-pong-table promises. Here’s what actually comes with the job.
We hire slowly — introduce yourself anyway
We’re not always hiring, and we like it that way: every person here was worth the wait. If the way we work sounds like the way you want to work, send a resume and a note about what you’d want to build. When a seat opens, we start with the people who already reached out.