Sales Intern

KinetiCAD; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

KinetiCAD Solutions helps machine shops in the US by reading CAD data, selecting tooling and operations, writing CNC programs, pricing jobs and booking machine time. The team is based at the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator.

The role focuses on direct customer outreach to machine shop owners and estimators, learning existing quoting processes and feeding insights back to product. You will often be the first contact from KinetiCAD for a customer.

Qualifications

• You are a student or recent grad aiming to sell to professionals.
• You can call shop owners you have not met before.
• You write clearly and keep messages concise.
• You are organised and persistent, with reliable follow-up.

Responsibilities

• Build target lists and reach out to machine shops by phone, email, LinkedIn and in person.
• Run discovery calls to understand current quoting, planning and time usage.
• Set up demos and trial runs and stay engaged until a decision is made.
• Keep the pipeline and notes tidy so nothing gets dropped.
• Visit shops and trade shows to report customer feedback.

Skills

Sales aptitude

Phone outreach

Clear writing

Organisation

Persistent follow-up

Education

Recent graduate

Job description

Help win machine shops across the US as customers, starting in the Bay Area, working directly with the founder.

About KinetiCAD

KinetiCAD reads a part's CAD model and its technical drawing and works out how a machine shop should make it. It picks the machine, the tools and the operations, and it writes the CNC program. It also prices the job and books the machine time. We're based at the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator.

The role

Our customers are machine shop owners, plus their estimators and programmers. They're busy and practical, and they have no patience for hype. Before you pitch anything, you find out how each shop quotes and plans its work, and you bring what you hear back to the product. Often you'll be the first person from KinetiCAD a customer talks to.

What you will do

• Build target lists and reach out to machine shops by phone, email, LinkedIn and in person.
• Run discovery calls. Find out how the shop quotes, plans and programs today, and where the time goes.
• Set up demos and trial runs with me, and stay on them until the shop makes a decision.
• Keep the pipeline and notes tidy so nothing gets dropped.
• Visit shops and trade shows, and tell us what customers say.

What you bring

• You're a student or recent grad and you want to sell. Any customer-facing job counts.
• You're fine calling a shop owner you've never met.
• You write clearly and keep it short.
• You're organised and persistent, and you follow up.

Strong plus

• A background in manufacturing, machining or engineering.
• A sales or business development internship.
• You already know people in Bay Area manufacturing.