11 hours ago
Base Salary
$255k - $322k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical direction of the robotics and autonomy stack.
- Lead architecture and integration across perception, localization, prediction, planning, controls, and vehicle systems.
- Develop algorithms for motion planning, trajectory generation, decision-making, and vehicle control.
- Own system-level problems spanning multiple autonomy-stack components and diagnose real-world autonomy failures.
- Establish evaluation and validation methodologies connecting component performance to vehicle behavior.
- Integrate learned models with AI Research and Perception teams and bring autonomous capabilities into production.
- Provide technical mentorship and raise the engineering bar across the robotics organization.
Requirements
- Significant experience developing robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other complex autonomous systems.
- Deep expertise in motion planning, trajectory generation, prediction, decision-making, localization, state estimation, controls, robotics systems architecture, or autonomous vehicle systems.
- Strong understanding of interactions among perception, planning, localization, controls, and vehicle systems in a production autonomy stack.
- Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python.
- Experience designing and debugging complex real-time robotic systems and deploying robotics or autonomy capabilities in the real world.
- Demonstrated ability to lead major technical initiatives and make architecture-level decisions.
- Experience with production autonomous vehicle systems, real-time or safety-critical robotics, vehicle dynamics, sensor systems, embedded or onboard compute, simulation, closed-loop evaluation, or autonomous-system validation is preferred.
- Experience integrating machine learning models, diagnosing long-tail failures, and mentoring senior engineers or leading across multiple teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account options.
- 401(k), equity, sick time, unlimited flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
- Pre-tax commuter benefit plan and team lunch in the SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday.
- Based in San Francisco and onsite five days per week for office-based teams.
- Full-time exempt employee benefits apply; benefits may change at the company’s discretion.
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.