Atomic Machines is building the Matter Compiler™: a general-purpose, AI-native manufacturing system designed to turn digital designs into functional devices through arbitrary combinations of materials and processes. Starting at the microscale, it brings together precision robotics, physical AI, and optimization to make manufacturing programmable. New devices come from composing reusable manufacturing capabilities, with physical results feeding back into design and production. Our ambition is lights-out manufacturing that learns from every build.
We recently emerged from stealth and introduced PrimeSwitch, the first device realized through the Matter Compiler. This electromechanical power relay provides concrete evidence of what the platform makes possible and marks an early milestone toward a much broader manufacturing vision.
Why This Role MattersFABOS is the Matter Compiler’s control plane. It maintains a trustworthy view of materials and equipment, plans production, and coordinates execution across the fab. It connects planned work to physical results so people and autonomous systems can understand what happened, what remains uncertain, and what can happen next.
You’ll build the dependable execution software that makes this general-purpose platform work as its capabilities and combinations grow. Our team already has deep expertise in data engineering and algorithms. We need a hands-on software engineer with deep architectural experience and systems thinking to turn that expertise into simple, dependable software.
Your primary responsibility is managing complexity: defining clear responsibilities and interfaces, limiting coupling, and making the system easier to understand, test, operate, and change. Fluency in data and optimization, paired with a willingness to work with hardware, supports that responsibility. The architecture is still taking shape, and you’ll help establish the foundations for scaling to more machines, processes, and devices.
What You’ll Do- Collaboratively define component responsibilities, state ownership, and interfaces; remove or simplify unnecessary complexity.
- Build and test production software in Go and Python
- Establish and maintain core software interfaces with data engineering and AI systems
- Evolve existing systems through safe, incremental migrations.
- Resolve integration issues with operators and engineers, including hands-on work with fab equipment.
- Work with cross functional teams to develop requirements and acceptance criteria
- 8+ years building production software; productive in Go and Python.
- Demonstrated meaningful ownership of architectural decisions in a complex production system.
- Demonstrate first-principles thinking with sound instincts for strategic tradeoffs.
- Closed-loop experience: Operated or evolved the system long enough to observe the consequences of those decisions, explain what worked and failed, and improve the architecture.
- Experience testing, operating, and safely migrating systems where correctness matters.
- Translate expert knowledge and user needs into software requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Discuss data models, transactions, and durable history with data engineers; objectives, constraints, inputs, and outputs with optimization experts.
- Demonstrated interaction with equipment. Have had to understand and troubleshoot physical workflows.
- Has willingness to work directly with fab equipment
- BS in CS or related field
The compensation for this position also includes equity and benefits.
Atomic Machines is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate based on characteristics protected by applicable law. We are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including for individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact [email protected]. To help our recruiting team manage application volume and respond to candidates more efficiently, Atomic Machines may use AI-assisted tools.
Skills Required
- 5+ years building or debugging systems with external dependencies (hardware, embedded devices, networked services)
- Proven track record making and defending nontrivial architecture decisions (build vs buy, deployment topology, service boundaries)
- Strong Python skills for production systems
- Proficiency in at least one systems or strongly-typed language: C++, Rust, or Go
- Solid grounding in distributed systems fundamentals: state coordination, consistency, failure modes, concurrency
- Experience introducing or maintaining CI/CD, automated testing, or observability tooling in an immature codebase
- Comfort operating against incomplete or contested specifications and driving clarity
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with real-time or resource-constrained environments, IoT, edge compute, industrial systems, robotics, or manufacturing automation
- Experience instrumenting systems for ML/AI pipelines and advanced observability beyond logs
- Experience evaluating cloud vs on-prem/edge deployment tradeoffs for latency- or safety-sensitive systems
- Experience debugging cross-layer issues spanning application logic, transport, firmware, and hardware
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.
