In this role you will help maintain and extend a web-based visual graph editor for manufacturing workflows. Users create and connect nodes representing materials/workpieces/tools and manufacturing steps (processes/inspections), validate the resulting workflow against catalogs and strict data contracts, and export a schema-compliant JSON representation for downstream tooling.
This role blends UI engineering with data integrity work. The editor must stay responsive on large graphs, preserve correctness (IDs, validation, export format), as well as support collaboration workflows through version control integrations.
This is a part-time, hybrid, freelance/contract role. Hours:
- 1st 60 days: 20-40 hours per week
- Ongoing: 10-20 hours (minimum) per week
- Build and maintain a React + TypeScript UI for a graph editor (node/edge creation, selection, multi-select, drag/drop, property panels)
- Implement schema-driven validation and export (JSON Schema / AJV), ensuring stable, backwards-compatible outputs as schemas evolve
- Improve performance and reliability for large graphs (rendering, minimizing re-renders, preventing UI jitter, safe persistence)
- Support workflows around identity/ID rules, including ID generation, transformations on copy/paste/import, and “minting/locking” behaviors that freeze certain fields once finalized
- Maintain integrations used in real production workflows:
- GitLab API (branching, committing files, MR workflows)
- Methods API (catalog sync, offline fallback, validation that blocks pushes when API is down)
- Authentication (Okta)
- Ship small-to-medium features end-to-end: UI, state changes, validation, tests, and docs
- Triage bugs from real users (manufacturing/process engineers), reproduce quickly, and implement safe fixes
- Add/maintain unit tests (Jest + TS) around tricky logic (ID transformation, export validation, API sync behavior)
- Keep the build/lint/test pipeline healthy (Vite, TypeScript, ESLint, Jest) and handle dependency upgrades carefully
- Collaborate asynchronously with a cross-functional team (process, production, AI) through clear PRs, strong commit hygiene, and pragmatic technical decisions
- Tools/Stack You’ll Work With: React 18, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, ReactFlow, AJV (JSON Schema), Jest, ESLint, GitLab API, OpenAPI, Okta
- Experience building complex, stateful UI systems (not CRUD/dashboard apps)
- Strong React + TypeScript with state management + performance optimization
- Experience with graph/diagram editors or similar interaction-heavy UIs
- Experience with large in-memory data + UI/data synchronization
- Experience with validation systems + deterministic outputs (schema, exports)
- Strong debugging in complex systems + ability to explain tradeoffs
- Experience leading complex, ambiguous problems across cross-functional teams with multiple stakeholders
- Manufacturing background (MES, process planning, CAD/CAM adjacent tooling, “recipes/methods/catalog” concepts)
- JSON Schema / AJV experience and comfort with strict data contracts
- GitLab API experience, auth systems (Okta/OIDC), or “internal tool” deployment constraints
What We Do
Atomic Machines is redefining humanity’s relationship with matter. We see a future where our tools will allow us to reorganize matter at the atomic level at will, where we will go from bits to atoms for any object or machine that can be designed in alignment with physical laws. We have begun our journey with the development of a robotic manufacturing platform capable of making an entirely new class of micro-electromechanical (MEMS) devices. We are well funded and have exceptionally strong product/market fit and a clear go-to-market path for the device we will make first with our platform. Our platform breaks traditional manufacturing paradigms and constraints, enabling inexpensive rapid prototyping as well as large scale manufacturing with highly compelling economics. Joining forces with us means becoming part of an incredibly talented, inventive and passionate multi-disciplinary team working on a massive world-changing mission. You will have the opportunity to help define the company from its early days. You’ll be challenged to learn and grow as a builder and a leader as the company itself grows rapidly. And you will receive significant equity compensation - you’ll truly be a company owner and benefit financially from our overall success.
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