Atomic Machines
Vice President, Matter Compiler Engineering
Emeryville or Santa Clara, California · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$300k-$360kDetected 8 days ago
Node.jsBudgetingSupply ChainGD&TRoboticsMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationTolerance AnalysisActuators
About the role
- This executive leadership role is one of the most pivotal and technically broad at Atomic Machines.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate a high-performing leadership team by managing managers and directors while ensuring their teams consistently deliver against strategic objectives and engineering excellence standards.
- Own the node hardware architecture: mechanism selection, kinematics, structural design, thermal control, sensing, actuation, and serviceability - with clear interfaces to software, controls, and manufacturing.
- Drive hardware requirements and error budgets for precision, throughput, and reliability (accuracy, repeatability, stiffness, settle time, drift, MTBF/MTTR, uptime) and translate them into subsystem specifications and verification plans.
- Lead design and industrialization of motion subsystems (stages/gantries, rotary axes, Z/force axes), end-effectors, fixturing, and in-situ metrology aligned with sub-micron performance needs.
- Establish rigorous design processes: design reviews, interface control documents (ICDs), GD&T and tolerance analysis standards, DFMEA/PFMEA, verification & validation (V&V) plans, and disciplined engineering change control (ECO/ECN).
- Build scalable calibration and alignment strategies into the hardware (datums, fiducials, kinematic mounts, reference artifacts) and partner with software to automate calibration, compensation, and drift detection.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to develop the prototype-to-production pipeline for node hardware: supplier strategy, DFM/DFA/DFS, first-article inspection, incoming quality, build documentation, assembly/test fixtures, and ramp to stable yields.
- Drive reliability engineering for nodes: test strategy (lifetime, wear, thermal cycling, vibration, contamination), FRACAS, root cause analysis, preventive maintenance design, and reliability growth metrics.
- Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing multi-disciplinary hardware organization (ME, opto-mechanics, test/validation) with a strong bar for technical excellence and execution.
- Partner cross-functionally to integrate nodes into complete manufacturing systems and debug factory issues with urgency, rigor, and high standards.
Requirements
- Minimum bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with deep hands-on hardware execution.
Skills
- Cultural alignment with first-principles reasoning, accountability, disciplined thinking, high standards, and truth-seeking teamwork.
- DFMEA/PFMEA, RCA, DOE, CAPA, wear/fatigue, contamination, and field-debug discipline in production environments.
- The compensation for this position also includes equity and benefits.
- Salary Range
- $300,000 - $360,000 USD
Compensation
- $300,000 - $360,000 USD
Benefits
- Experience selecting and integrating sensors and actuators (encoders, force/torque, vision, capacitive/inductive, pneumatics, motors, bearings) with clear understanding of physics and failure modes.
Company info
- Importantly, we are growing rapidly, and you will play a key role in further building out the team with additional bar-raising talent.
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