Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Robotic Manufacturing Systems
Atomic Machines12 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed software systems coordinating state, timing, and behavior across manufacturing hardware.
- Write, test, and debug software for sensors, actuators, and process controllers under real-time and reliability constraints.
- Develop workflows bridging manual and automated process steps and coordinate production and process-development handoffs.
- Evolve the existing fleet software, including APIs governing machine behavior, while architecture decisions converge.
- Instrument machine and process systems for human observability and downstream AI/ML consumption.
- Investigate and resolve issues spanning application software, firmware, and physical systems.
- Establish software engineering practices including testing, code review, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Improve reliability through observability, fault handling, and graceful degradation.
- Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to translate physical constraints into software behavior.
- Drive architecture alignment and decisions with engineering leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years building or debugging systems with real external dependencies such as hardware, embedded devices, or networked services.
- Demonstrated ability to make and defend architecture decisions involving build-versus-buy, deployment topology, and service boundaries.
- Strong production Python skills and proficiency in at least one of C++, Rust, or Go.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, including state coordination, consistency, failure modes, and concurrency.
- Experience introducing or maintaining CI/CD, automated testing, or observability tooling in an established codebase.
- Ability to operate effectively with incomplete or contested specifications and drive clarity.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with real-time or resource-constrained environments, IoT, edge computing, industrial systems, robotics, warehouses, manufacturing lines, fabrication, or automation facilities is a plus.
- Experience instrumenting systems for ML/AI pipelines, evaluating cloud versus on-premises or edge deployment, and debugging across application, transport, firmware, and hardware layers is preferred.
Benefits
- The position includes equity and benefits.
- Salary range is $180,000–$230,000 USD.
- The role is based in Emeryville or Santa Clara, California.
About Atomic Machines
Atomic Machines develops the Matter Compiler (MC-1), a digital, multi-process, multi-material micromanufacturing platform that fabricates complete micromachines and MEMS-class devices. The company plans to commercialize both the platform’s automated Nodes and device products, with an initial product aimed at AI data-center hardware. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, Atomic Machines is privately held and operates a hybrid fab to support rapid development and scale-up.