Robotics Systems Engineer (All levels)

 About Atoms

Atoms builds Physical AI — real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Over the last decade, software transformed the digital world. The physical world — where food is made, minerals are mined, and goods are moved — remains far less intelligent and far more constrained. Atoms is changing that.

Their systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive. This requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. Atoms doesn’t just build machines in a lab — they deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

 

The Opportunity

Atoms is looking for a Robotics Systems Engineer who thrives at system-level debugging and end-to-end feature delivery — taking autonomy capabilities from prototype to reliable performance on real vehicles. You will develop, test, and deploy features for autonomous trucks, and serve as a technical lead during deployments, owning bring-up, triage, and cross-team coordination in mission-critical environments.

 This is a field-facing, hands-on role. You will diagnose issues across sensors, compute, networking, controls, and software stacks, bring up new truck platforms, and support deployments at customer sites. Your work ships to real vehicles operating in real conditions.

 

What You’ll Do

• •      Develop, integrate, and validate autonomy features and tests for real-world autonomous vehicle operation
• •      Own system-level debugging across sensors, compute, networking, controls, and software using logs, metrics, and on-vehicle tools
• •      Lead technical execution for deployments: drive bring-up plans, communicate technical requirements, identify risks, and coordinate fixes with engineering and operations
• •      Support field deployments in mission-critical environments including periodic travel to customer sites and hands-on on-vehicle debugging
• •      Bring up and integrate new truck platforms: work with hardware and integration teams to add sensors and vehicle signals, calibrate systems, and tune performance
• •      Collaborate across hardware, operations, safety, and product to deliver robust, safe, and maintainable autonomy behavior

Travel up to 10% to customer sites; some schedule flexibility required during deployments.

 

You Should Have

• •      2+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship)
• •      Strong programming skills in at least one modern language — Python, C++, Java, or C#; experience with object-oriented design and building maintainable systems
• •      Proven robotics engineering experience with evidence of system-level ownership such as integration, debugging, performance tuning, field support, or deployments
• •      Ability to design and debug software systems with strong diagnostics including structured logging, fault isolation, and testability that scale beyond a single vehicle
• •      Working knowledge of core robotics concepts and math including state estimation, Kalman filtering, localization, planning, and controls
• •      Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects through planning, execution, and deployment
• •      Experience deploying autonomy or robotics systems in the field including on-call or deployment rotations, safety-critical troubleshooting, or customer-site support
• •      Experience with any of: sensor fusion, safety systems, camera pipelines, ML for perception, vehicle interfaces (CAN), or calibration workflows
• •      Comfort operating in ambiguity — able to define scope, interfaces, milestones, and success criteria to drive a problem to completion

 

Nice to Have

• •      Familiarity with robotics tooling and infrastructure including Linux, Git, CI/CD, and simulation or test harnesses
• •      Background in autonomous vehicles, heavy equipment, or industrial automation environments

 

Compensation and Benefits

Base Salary: $145,000 - $180,000, depending on experience, plus equity.

 Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; FSA/HSA options; 401(k); unlimited flexible time off and paid holidays; paid parental leave; pre-tax commuter benefit; and team lunches in the SoMa office twice a week.