Atomic Machines
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Robotic Applications
Emeryville, or Santa Clara, California · Staff+
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About the role
- Our manufacturing system is composed of nodes
- As a Software Engineer, Robotic Applications, you will bring nodes to life: designing the automation sequences, state machines, and APIs that turn integrated hardware into reliable, repeatable manufacturing capacity.
- You can try code on the machine in the morning and land it as a tested, typed package through CI in the afternoon.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement machine behavior: automation sequencing, state machines, failure detection and recovery, and the APIs that expose it all.
- Bring up new hardware with cross-functional teams, and build the calibration, verification, and diagnostic tools that make the next copy of a machine faster to stand up.
- less frequently as the company grows and eventually transitioning to dedicated support teams).
- 3+ years developing software for systems that interact with hardware or the physical world (level set by experience and interview performance
- To help our recruiting team manage application volume and respond to candidates more efficiently, Atomic Machines may use AI-assisted tools.
Requirements
- If your strongest language is something else, you are welcome if you can work in Python live
- Experience bringing up and integrating electromechanical systems (sensors, actuators, motion axes) in production environments.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop test design, observability, or simulation and digital-twin validation beyond unit-level mocks.
- not required here).
Compensation
- $170,000 - $230,000 USD
Benefits
- Write code that makes unsafe commands impossible rather than merely discouraged: enforce invariants, validate before touching hardware, and leave the machine in a known state on every exit path.
- Optimize cycle time: instrument sequences, find where time goes, and overlap or restructure motion/vision/process steps to get it back.
- Current coverage slots are 6am-2pm or 2pm-10pm, and you will not be expected to work beyond the
Company info
- Founded by Jeff Holden - serial entrepreneur, ex-Amazon SVP and Uber's first Chief Product Officer - the company has raised $250 million to date.
- We are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including for individuals with disabilities.
Equal opportunity
- Atomic Machines is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate based on characteristics protected by applicable law.
- To request an accommodation, contact rc@atomicmachines.com.
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