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# Senior/Staff  Software Engineer, Robotic Manufacturing Systems at Atomic Machines

- **Company:** Atomic Machines
- **Location:** Emeryville California OR Santa Clara, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$230k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atomicmachines/jobs/4357767009

## Job description

Atomic Machines is ushering in a new era of micromanufacturing with its Matter Compiler™ technology platform. This platform enables new classes of micromachines to be designed and built by providing manufacturing processes and a materials library that are inaccessible to semiconductor manufacturing methods. It unlocks MEMS manufacturing not only for device classes that could never be produced by semiconductor methods, but also for entirely new categories. Furthermore, this digital platform is fully programmable in the way 3D printing is digital—but whereas 3D printing produces parts of a single material using a single process, the Matter Compiler™ technology platform is a multi-process, multi-material system: bits and raw materials go in, and complete, functional micromachines come out. The Atomic Machines team has also created an exciting first device—made possible only through the Matter Compiler™ technology platform—that we will be unveiling to the world soon.

Our offices are in Emeryville and Santa Clara, California.

## Why This Role Matters Right Now

The Atomic Machines robotics fleet has reached a level of maturity where it's ready to bring the Matter Compiler online. Now is the time manufacturing software must be brought up to par to leverage this fleet into a true fab. Concretely:

- Architectural decisions — cloud vs. on-prem, how far the control layer should extend — are currently being made in parallel by people with different mental models of the end state, without a shared, written-down source of truth.
- The cost is real: engineering time is being spent today on work that may be thrown away once the architecture actually converges.

We're hiring a seasoned engineer who can operate productively inside that ambiguity — someone who will write the design docs, drive the team toward a decision, and also model (and insist on) the testing, review, and traceability discipline that keeps this from happening again. This is as much a mandate to bring engineering rigor to the org as it is to build a platform that lets process developers — and eventually in-the-loop physical AI — safely program the fab. If that sounds like more org-building than you want in a "software engineer" role, this probably isn't the right fit — and that's a useful thing to know before either of us invests time in the process.

What You’ll Do:

- Design and build the distributed software systems that coordinate state, timing, and behavior across manufacturing hardware; write, test, and debug sensors, actuators, and process controllers under real-time and reliability constraints.
- Design workflows that bridge manual and automated process steps, and coordinate handoffs between production and process development.
- Evolve the existing system in place — including but not limited to API development to govern machine behavior across our fleet— as the architecture converges, without waiting for a clean-slate rewrite to start delivering value.
- Instrument systems so machine and process data is legible — not just to humans via logs, but structured for downstream AI/ML consumption.
- Investigate and resolve issues that span software, firmware, and physical systems.
- Establish and model software engineering practices — testing, code review, CI/CD, documentation — appropriate for a team that's outgrown its current ones.
- Contribute to system reliability through structured observability, fault handling, and graceful degradation.
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to translate physical constraints into resilient software behavior.
- Partner with engineering leadership to help converge competing architectural visions into one well-reasoned direction, rather than waiting for it to be handed down.

What You’ll Need:

- 5+ years building or debugging systems with real external dependencies: hardware, embedded devices, networked services, or similar.
- A track record of making and defending nontrivial architecture decisions — build vs. buy, deployment topology, service boundaries — not just implementing someone else's design.
- Strong Python skills for production systems, plus proficiency in at least one systems or strongly-typed language (C++, Rust, or Go) [confirm against actual stack].
- Solid grounding in distributed systems fundamentals: state coordination, consistency, failure modes, concurrency.
- Experience introducing or maintaining CI/CD, automated testing, or observability tooling in a codebase that didn't already have it.
- Comfort operating against an incomplete or contested spec — and a bias toward driving clarity rather than waiting for it.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points For:

- Experience with real-time or resource-constrained environments, or analogous domains (IoT, edge compute, industrial systems, robotics, warehouses, manufacturing lines, fabrication and automation facilities).
- You've thought seriously about observability: what to instrument, when logs aren’t enough, how to make failure legible, and you’ve instrumented systems specifically to make their data usable by ML/AI pipelines.
- You've been the person who introduced testing or CI discipline to a team that didn't have it — and can speak concretely about how you got buy-in, not just what you built.
- Experience evaluating cloud vs. on-prem/edge deployment tradeoffs for latency- or safety-sensitive systems.
- You've debugged issues that required reasoning across multiple system layers: application logic, transport, firmware, hardware.
- You're genuinely energized by translating physical constraints — latency, noise, mechanical tolerance, safety margins — into software behavior.

The compensation for this position also includes equity and benefits.

Salary Range $180,000—$230,000 USD

## About Atomic Machines

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atomic Machines is building a new robotic micro-manufacturing platform to create a class of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) devices unattainable with traditional semiconductor-based fabrication.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, USA (with additional offices in Emeryville and Santa Clara, CA) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
- **Founded**: 2019 [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Advanced Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Robotics, MEMS (Micro-Electromechanical Systems), Machinery (B2B), Semiconductors [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
- **Target customers**: B2B — technology innovators and manufacturers in the AI data center world and broader tech industry requiring rapid prototyping and large-scale production of micro-devices [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Redefining humanity’s relationship with matter" — building the machines that make everything, taking digital manufacturing to the extreme [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-machines)

## Products & Services
- **MEMS 2.0 Platform**: A proprietary robotic manufacturing technology stack that breaks traditional paradigms of silicon-fab-based MEMS fabrication, enabling new classes of microdevices with radically shorter development lifecycles [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/)
- **First Commercial Device**: A product addressing a critical need in the rapidly evolving AI data center world, currently being commercialized [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **Microelectromechanical Systems Power Relay**: Patented technology (multiple patents filed globally) for power relay applications [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$144M** across two rounds (Series A in Nov 2022, Series B in Feb 2025) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sozo Ventures, XTX Ventures, Deep Ventures, and individual angel investors (10 total investors) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
- **Growth Signals**: Strong product/market fit with a clear go-to-market path; headcount of 134 employees (as of 2026) growing rapidly; well-funded with $75M Series B raised in Feb 2025; active patent portfolio [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37) [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Technology Stack**: A completely new micro-manufacturing approach that is not based on traditional semiconductor/MEMS fabrication — a fundamental innovation rather than an incremental improvement [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/)
- **Extreme Digital Manufacturing**: Enables "unimaginably short product development lifecycles" and rapid prototyping with compelling economics [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **First-Mover Advantage in MEMS 2.0**: Breaking traditional manufacturing paradigms for a new class of microdevices
- **Patented IP**: Multiple active and pending patents for microelectromechanical systems power relay technology [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)

## Strategic Focus
- **Commercialization**: Scaling the first device targeting the AI data center market [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **Platform Expansion**: Building the full "matter compiler" — the machines that make everything — from rapid prototyping to large-scale production [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/)
- **Talent Aggregation**: Actively hiring across multiple disciplines (AI, software, hardware, manufacturing, IT security, finance) to build a world-class multi-disciplinary team [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atomicmachines)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: A rare opportunity to work on a "world-changing mission" to democratize the power to make physical things — from bits to atoms [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **Apolitical Maker Culture**: The company explicitly states it is building "an apolitical maker culture of continuous invention, operational excellence and idea meritocracy" with information transparency [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **Significant Equity**: Employees receive significant equity compensation and are treated as true company owners who benefit financially from overall success [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-machines)
- **Multi-Disciplinary Environment**: Work alongside incredibly talented engineers, scientists, and builders across robotics, MEMS, software, AI, and manufacturing [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
- **Work Policy**: In-Office — employees work from physical offices in Emeryville, Santa Clara, or Berkeley, CA [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-machines) [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atomicmachines)
- **Growth Opportunity**: Join as an early-stage company (founded 2019, still stealth) with strong funding and clear product/market fit — opportunity to help define the company from its early days [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-machines)

## Sources
1. [atomicmachines.com](https://www.atomicmachines.com/)
2. [atomicmachines.com/join](https://www.atomicmachines.com/join)
3. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atomicmachines)
4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/461907-37)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-machines)

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