CMM Programmer

About Lucid Motors and the Role

Lucid Motors is dedicated to creating advanced mobility experiences through innovation, driving the automotive world forward with proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture. The company's approach emphasizes deep vertical integration, with in-house design, engineering, and production across global facilities. This full-time role for a CMM Programmer is based in King Abdullah Economic City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and requires 2-5 years of relevant experience.

Role Overview: CMM Programmer

The CMM Programmer is responsible for developing, validating, optimizing, and maintaining Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) programs and dimensional inspection methods. This role supports vehicle launch and series production at Lucid Motors, ensuring efficient, accurate, repeatable, and traceable measurement of various vehicle components and tooling. Reporting to the Metrology Manager, the CMM Programmer collaborates with Dimensional Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Supplier Quality, Tooling, and Metrology Technicians to translate engineering requirements into reliable measurement strategies and actionable dimensional reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, prove out, validate, optimize, document, and maintain CMM programs using approved CAD models, engineering drawings, GD&T, measurement plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Define robust part alignments, datum structures, probing strategies, feature constructions, scanning paths, clearance moves, measurement sequences, and reporting outputs.
• Create and maintain inspection programs for stamped panels, Body-in-White (BIW), closures, assemblies, fixtures, tooling, master parts, Powertrain components, and investigation samples.
• Validate new and revised programs through feature verification, repeatability studies, correlation, peer review, and comparison with approved reference methods.
• Interpret engineering drawings, CAD models, GD&T, special characteristics, tolerance requirements, and dimensional control plans to ensure complete measurement coverage.
• Optimize program cycle time and equipment utilization without compromising measurement accuracy, repeatability, accessibility, or safety.
• Perform or support Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R), measurement uncertainty studies, capability analysis, and correlation between CMM, ScanBox, eCube, fixtures, and manual measurement methods.
• Generate clear dimensional reports, deviation summaries, trend and SPC charts, color maps, and technical findings for launch, production, audits, containment, and root cause investigations.
• Support fixture buyoff, tooling verification, engineering changes, new-part introduction, trial builds, safe launch, process validation, and dimensional sign-off.
• Troubleshoot CMM programs, probe configurations, alignments, software errors, collisions, environmental effects, and inconsistent measurement results.
• Maintain program revision control, backups, naming conventions, report templates, probe libraries, qualification records, calibration status, and measurement traceability.
• Coordinate with Metrology Technicians to ensure correct program execution, part setup, fixture use, data storage, and escalation of abnormal results.
• Provide training and technical coaching on CMM operation, program execution, GD&T interpretation, measurement methods, reporting, and equipment care.
• Support continuous improvement of programming standards, measurement cycle time, automation, data visualization, correlation, and metrology workflows.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Metrology, or a related discipline.
• 2-5 years of hands-on CMM programming and dimensional measurement experience within automotive, aerospace, precision manufacturing, or a comparable industry.
• Demonstrated ability to independently create, validate, optimize, and release CMM programs and interpret measurement results against GD&T requirements.
• Ability to work in a metrology laboratory and on the manufacturing floor, support production priorities, and communicate complex technical findings across organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with offline CMM programming, CAD-based inspection, probe-system configuration, scanning strategies, MSA, correlation, and capability analysis.
• Experience measuring stamped parts, body structures, closures, fixtures, tooling, precision assemblies, or automotive components.
• Experience supporting new product launches, greenfield manufacturing, safe launch, or high-volume production ramp-up.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in King Abdullah Economic City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a metrology laboratory and on the manufacturing floor, supporting production priorities and collaborating with various engineering and manufacturing teams.