2 hours ago
Base Salary
$208k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and design of the production simulation platform, including simulation control, determinism, reproducibility, batch execution, and traceable result storage.
- Build and maintain log-replay pipelines, including open-loop scoring against ground truth and closed-loop replay.
- Own scenario schemas, scenario libraries, coverage definitions, and commit, nightly, regression, and release-validation suites.
- Define release pass criteria, reporting, and resolution workflows for failing scenarios before deployment to benches, proving grounds, or sites.
- Evaluate commercial simulation platforms versus in-house development and own resulting vendor relationships and service levels.
- Measure and report simulation fidelity against vehicle behavior.
- Set engineering practices for testing, review, documentation, and simulation-result reporting.
- Mentor engineers, participate in hiring, and represent simulation requirements and constraints to autonomy, robotics, safety, and testing teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 2+ years as a technical lead or engineering manager setting technical direction and driving consensus.
- Experience owning a production continuous-integration simulation platform with determinism, reproducibility, and execution-at-scale accountability.
- Hands-on experience building large-scale log replay, scenario-based system testing, and test-suite architecture.
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, including debugging and navigating large existing codebases.
- Demonstrated build-versus-buy judgment for simulation or test infrastructure and understanding of resulting maintenance costs.
- Experience with an autonomous vehicle or robotics platform and end-to-end understanding of sensing, perception, localization, planning, and controls.
- Working experience with robotics middleware and its logging and replay tooling.
- Experience handling camera, LiDAR, and radar data across multiple modalities and timestamps.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising a team's technical standard.
- Working fluency with modern AI coding and agentic development tools.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week in San Francisco.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
- 401(k), equity eligibility, sick time, unlimited flexible time off, and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave and pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Team lunch in the SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday.
- This is a full-time exempt role based onsite in San Francisco five days per week.
About Atoms
Atoms develops robotics, software, and infrastructure to automate real-world industrial operations, with offerings focused on food production, mining, and robotic transport platforms. It sells integrated automation systems and platforms—Atoms Food, Atoms Mining, and a transport wheelbase for robots—to industrial customers seeking greater productivity and scalability. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles.