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title: 'HR Generalist - Transport & Mining at Atoms'
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# HR Generalist - Transport & Mining at Atoms

- **Company:** Atoms
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cssmerge/jobs/8919465002

## Job description

## Who we are

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.

Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.

Atoms builds Physical AI – real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.

This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.

If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.

## About the role

As the first HR Generalist on the Transport & Mining HR team, you'll work directly with the Head of HR for Transport & Mining to build the people foundation for two fast-scaling businesses. This role is designed for someone with 3-5 years of HR experience who wants to grow in employee relations, manager coaching, data-driven HR, and operational excellence.

You'll support employees and managers across a diverse workforce: engineers and operations teams in San Francisco, manufacturing technicians, and hourly field teams at customer sites in the US and internationally. You'll own day-to-day HR operations, keep our people data accurate, ensure compliance, and help deliver the people programs that let these teams scale. Your job is to help us move from reactive to proactive while the organization is still being built.

The ideal candidate brings a service mindset, exceptional attention to detail, and sound judgment in a fast-paced environment. You'll be equally comfortable supporting an engineer in HQ and a technician on a shift schedule.

## What you’ll do

Employee Relations & Manager Coaching

- Serve as the first point of contact for employee and manager questions across Transport & Mining, providing guidance on HR policies, benefits, leaves, and local requirements.
- Handle employee relations intake, documentation, resolution tracking, and trend spotting, and partner with Employee Relations on investigations and complex cases.
- Coach managers on performance, conduct, and attendance issues, including coaching conversations, documentation, and performance improvement plans.
- Coach new and first-time managers on everyday people practices, and help build simple resources they can use on their own.

HR Operations & Compliance

- Own onboarding and offboarding for a high volume of employees across office, field, and manufacturing roles, from HRIS setup, background checks, and site readiness to termination entries, final pay, and system deactivation.
- Process job changes, transfers, and pay changes with high accuracy, and keep employee data clean as T&M teams move onto Atoms' core HR systems.
- Partner with Payroll on timekeeping audits for hourly and shift-based employees, including overtime and premium pay, and help make sure roles are classified correctly as exempt or non-exempt.
- Coordinate workers' compensation claims from intake to resolution with operations, safety, and insurance partners, and conduct regular audits across HR focus areas to ensure ongoing compliance and operational accuracy.
- Support M&A integration efforts, including employment agreements, benefits transitions, and onboarding into Atoms programs and systems.

Business Partnership & People Programs

- Partner with engineering, operations, and manufacturing leaders on org changes, team health, and headcount planning, bringing data and a point of view to the conversation.
- Help deliver Atoms' people programs for Transport & Mining, including performance cycles, engagement, recognition, and retention.
- Support leveling and title consistency as teams grow and new teams join Atoms.

Data, AI & Process Improvement

- Build and maintain reporting on headcount, hiring, attrition, attendance, and leave trends, and turn the data into clear and actionable insights for HR leadership and business leaders.
- Find repetitive HR work and remove it, using AI tools, automation, templates, and self-serve resources.
- Turn one-off fixes into simple, repeatable processes that will hold up as we scale.

## What we’re looking for

- 3-5 years of HR experience, ideally as an HR Generalist in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or a high-growth start-up.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience accepted.
- Experience supporting hourly, field, or manufacturing employees across multiple US states, including exempt vs. non-exempt classification. International exposure is a plus.
- Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn payroll management, human resource information system (HRIS), and similar computer applications. Workday experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills: comfortable with spreadsheets, building reports, and pulling insight from HRIS data.
- Hungry and builder-minded: you've worked without a playbook, figured it out, and stayed with a problem until it was fixed. You're comfortable with ambiguity and speed while holding a high bar for quality.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
- Clear, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with a deep care for doing great work. You raise the bar for yourself and others.
- AI-fluent and already using new tools to work faster and improve HR processes at scale.

## Why join us

At Atoms, you’ll work on one of the defining challenges of our time—bringing automation into the physical world to drive real, lasting impact. We exist to uncover valuable unknown truths and turn them into progress, which means constantly pushing beyond what’s known and building what doesn’t yet exist. The work is ambitious and often challenging, but it’s grounded in a shared sense of purpose and a team committed to seeing it through together. Our work only matters if it serves others, and we know that meaningful progress depends on the trust of the people we serve and the strength of our team—so we invest in both, creating an environment where you can do your best work and grow.

What else you need to know

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate. We do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $106,000 - $125,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Time Off policies:
- Discretionary vacation days
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion. Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others?

#LI-Onsite

## About Atoms

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atoms builds physical automation systems—robotics, AI, software, and infrastructure—for mining, transport, and food industries to automate the physical world.
- **Entity Type**: Private (formerly City Storage Systems; rebranded from CloudKitchens/ProFood parent)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: Rebranded as Atoms in March 2026; predecessor City Storage Systems founded earlier (~2018)
- **Founders**: Travis Kalanick (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Physical AI, Robotics, Automation Machinery Manufacturing, Industrial Infrastructure
- Target customers: Mining/quarry operators, transportation & logistics companies, food service brands and kitchens (B2B, heavy industrial)
- Mission or purpose statement: “We build progress machines.” / “The constraint on human progress is our ability to automate the physical world.”

## Products & Services
- **Atoms Mining**: Autonomous haulage systems for mines and quarries designed to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency in complex industrial environments.
- **Atoms Transport**: Wheelbase for robots — autonomous delivery and logistics systems for moving goods. Includes the acquired Pronto AI technology (acquisition completed April 2026).
- **Atoms Food (ProFood)**: Robotics for better food. Automated kitchen systems that deliver consistent, affordable meals at scale; kitchen infrastructure platforms (bringing orders, delivery, operations into one platform); food real estate; Lab37 (an operating system for food facilities); and a forthcoming “built” meals brand.
- **Lab37**: The operating system/software layer that connects and orchestrates Atoms’ physical automation across domains.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – Not publicly disclosed; previously raised significant capital as City Storage Systems/CloudKitchens (estimated at over $1B in prior rounds); 414 employees on LinkedIn as of mid-2026
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Travis Kalanick (founder/CEO, previously co-founded Uber); partners include mining/quarry operators, food brands (specific names not public)
- **Growth Signals**: 414 employees (+13.2% monthly growth); operates in 24 countries; 26 active job postings (+160% monthly); recent acquisition of Pronto AI (April 2026); rebranding from City Storage Systems to Atoms (March 2026) signals strategic consolidation and pivot; hiring across robotics, AI, software, hardware, operations globally

## Competitive Advantages
- **Cross-stack vertical integration**: Controls sensors, compute, software, manufacturing, operations, real estate, energy, and infrastructure — a rare “full-stack” approach to physical AI.
- **Founder advantage**: Led by Travis Kalanick (Uber co-founder) who has deep experience scaling category-defining companies and attracting top engineering/operations talent.
- **Real-world deployment**: Robots with “real jobs” — not lab demos — deployed in working mines, kitchens, and transport systems today.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on “cross-stack competence,” ownership, and solving problems “most companies won’t attempt.”
- **Global footprint**: Presence in 24 countries allows rapid deployment and operations at scale.

## Strategic Focus
- Consolidating formerly separate brands (CloudKitchens, ProFood, Pronto AI) under one unified “Atoms” identity to create a single physical AI platform
- Expanding autonomous mining haulage into more quarries and mines globally
- Scaling food automation from kitchen robotics to end-to-end food infrastructure (real estate, ordering, delivery, operations)
- Growing AI, ML, and autonomy capabilities (hiring Senior Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure, Backend Infrastructure, Robotics Engineer)
- International expansion with dedicated regional roles (APAC, LATAM, Europe)

## Why Work Here
- **High ownership**: “Take ownership early, and contribute from day one” — interns and new hires work on live products, not side projects.
- **Hard problems**: Solving physical-world automation challenges that most companies won’t attempt — mining, logistics, food production at scale.
- **Compensation**: “Outsized rewards for outsized performance” — competitive compensation, healthcare, benefits, and PTO.
- **Culture**: “Builders” and “hardcore engineers” who have scaled category-defining companies — a relentless, high-expectation environment focused on excellence.
- **Work policy**: Mix of in-office roles (Mountain View, CA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Austin, TX) and international locations (Vilnius, LTU; Makati, PH; Bogotá, COL; São Paulo, BRA). Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but many roles list specific city locations.
- **Tech stack**: Modern — Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, gRPC, Bazel, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, dbt, Looker, Airflow.
- **Team composition**: 25% of employees in technical roles (154 people); strong presence of HR, legal, finance, and operations supporting global scale; talent sourced from CloudKitchens, Amazon, Uber, Google, ProFood Properties, City Storage Systems.

## Sources
1. [atoms.co](https://atoms.co/)
2. [atoms.co/careers](https://atoms.co/careers)
3. [atoms.co/openroles](https://atoms.co/openroles)
4. [LinkedIn – Atoms](https://www.linkedin.com/company/atomsco)
5. [Greenhouse – Atoms Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cssmerge)

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