Atomic Machines
Director of Mechanical Engineering, Hardware Platform
Emeryville or Santa Clara, CA · Director
Sponsorship not specified$275k-$320kDetected 9 days ago
Node.jsBudgetingSupply ChainGD&TRoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringTolerance AnalysisActuators
About the role
- Your team will work closely with our Hybrid Fab, giving you a fast feedback loop between development, deployment, and manufacturing learning.
- Guide architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, vision, manufacturing, and supply chain domains.
- Mechanical Engineering Technical Leadership
Responsibilities
- Own the hardware architecture for Atomic Machines' platform and Node systems, including mechanisms, kinematics, structures, thermal control, sensing, actuation, fixturing, serviceability, and interfaces to software, controls, and manufacturing.
- Lead the design and development of precision motion subsystems, including stages, gantries, rotary axes, Z / force axes, end-effectors, fixturing, and in-situ metrology.
- Drive hardware requirements, error budgets, and subsystem specifications for precision, throughput, reliability, accuracy, repeatability, stiffness, settle time, drift, uptime, MTBF, and MTTR.
- Provide deep technical leadership in mechanical design for robotics, precision automation, and advanced manufacturing systems.
- Establish and maintain high standards for design reviews, design documentation, interface control documents, GD&T, tolerance analysis, DFMEA / PFMEA, verification and validation plans, and engineering change control.
- Drive disciplined engineering practices while maintaining speed, creativity, and first-principles problem solving.
- Partner with teams to debug complex hardware, factory, and system-level issues with urgency and rigor.
- Build scalable calibration and compensation strategies into the hardware, including datums, fiducials, kinematic mounts, reference artifacts, automated calibration, and drift detection.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience developing complex robotics, precision automation, advanced manufacturing systems, or dynamic mechanical precision systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of rapid prototyping and scalable production manufacturing processes, including machining, sheet metal, injection molding, assembly, inspection, and test.
- High autonomy and ability to make meaningful progress in ambiguity.
Nice to have
- Experience with sub-micron or micron-scale precision systems.
- Experience with advanced manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, robotics, automation, industrial machinery, or high-performance hardware platforms.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary hardware organizations across mechanical engineering, opto-mechanics, test, validation, and manufacturing transfer.
- 7+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including senior engineers
- experience managing managers and / or directors is strongly preferred.
Compensation
- $275,000 - $320,000 USD
Company info
- Ensure platform and Node hardware is designed for scalability, calibration, alignment, serviceability, and manufacturing readiness.
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