About the Role
Atomic Machines is building advanced robotic manufacturing systems that integrate precision motion, sensing, vision, and process control into tightly coordinated production nodes. As the Senior Manager, Robotic Systems Software Engineering, you’ll own the architecture and development of the system-level software that orchestrates these nodes in production. Your team will be responsible for workflow sequencing, subsystem coordination, configuration management, and operational robustness. You will report to the Sr. Director of Platform and work with other software leaders and electrical, mechanical and systems engineering teams to bring new manufacturing nodes from hardware integration through stable, repeatable 24/7 operation.
What You’ll Do
- Own the architecture of the robotic systems software stack, including deterministic workflow engines and sequencing logic across motion, vision, sensing, and IO subsystems.
- Lead node bring-up from hardware integration through production stabilization, ensuring safe, recoverable, and repeatable behavior.
- Define standards for fault detection, classification, automated recovery, and safe-state transitions.
- Establish clear architectural boundaries and interface contracts between real-time control layers and higher-level orchestration software.
- Build scalable configuration and calibration management frameworks to ensure reproducibility and consistency across machines.
- Implement robust telemetry, structured logging, and time-synchronized diagnostics to enable rapid root-cause analysis.
- Partner cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, robotics, manufacturing, and infrastructure teams to ensure tight system integration.
- Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing team with strong technical standards and accountability.
What You’ll Need
- 10+ years of experience building complex automation or robotic systems, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Demonstrated expertise designing deterministic orchestration systems or explicit state machines in production environments.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, event ordering, idempotency, and failure recovery in hardware-integrated systems.
- Experience transitioning robotic or automation platforms from prototype to stable, production-grade operation.
- Experience building observability systems for complex, hardware-integrated software.
- Working knowledge of real-time motion or embedded control systems and how to architect clean separation between real-time and non-real-time layers.
- Proven track record hiring, coaching, and scaling strong engineering teams.
- Strong systems-level reasoning across hardware and software domains.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent work experience.
The compensation for this position also includes equity and benefits.
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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.
