Atomic Semi
Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco Office · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- You will focus on backend architecture, data models, and bridging the gap between our central web applications and physical manufacturing hardware.
- You will know you are successful when process engineers can seamlessly and reliably control, monitor, and orchestrate fab hardware in real-time through the systems you've architected.
- Our users are internal process engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and development of high-performance backend APIs (Go, Rust, gRPC) that power our central fab product.
- Drive the long-term system architecture, challenging existing assumptions to support our evolving fab processes and yield optimization goals.
- Proven ability to own systems under real-world constraints, including failure recovery, troubleshooting, and on-call support.
Requirements
- Experience leading and delivering highly complex, business-critical production systems from end to end.
- A track record of earning trust, providing clarity to your team, and leading by example through consistent follow-through.
- Experience working with hardware or embedded systems.
Skills
- Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years.
Compensation
- fab2 is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
- The annual salary range for this role is $125,000 - $195,000.
- Compensation is determined based on your qualifications and experience.
- Our total compensation package also includes generous equity in fab2.
Benefits
- fab2 offers the following benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off inclusive of Holidays and Sick Time
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Weekly Learning & Development opportunities
- Commuter Benefits including Parking and Late Night Uber rides from the office
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.
Company info
- The Fab Software team builds the product that runs our entire fab-a central web app used to manufacture chips.
- We build tools for managing hardware, monitoring and controlling systems in real time, designing processes, and analyzing experimental data.
- The work on this team spans frontend, backend, and data, all focused on making the fab programmable, observable, and easy to operate as we push toward a fully software-defined chip manufacturing process driven by AI and ML orchestration.
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