About the Role
Atoms is building Physical AI—real-world robots for industries like food, mining, and transport. We integrate hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate to create more reliable, scalable, and productive physical operations. Join us to work on hard problems with real-world impact.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale People infrastructure in a fast-growing, early-stage environment.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, guiding fast-moving decisions.
- Drive headcount planning and organizational design.
- Support client groups across multiple countries as a US-based partner.
- Help build the foundation for a high-volume hourly driver and field population.
- Use data to diagnose attrition and build employee engagement.
- Serve as a point of contact for employee concerns and ensure compliance with employment laws.
Requirements
- Approximately 7+ years of HR/People experience with a proven track record.
- A hands-on, scrappy builder energized by ambiguity and creating structure in an early-stage environment.
- Experience scaling a People function through high growth, supporting both exempt and non-exempt workforces.
- Experience supporting client groups in more than one country as a US-based leader.
- Familiarity with PEO/EOR models is a plus.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills with technical and operating leaders.
- Familiarity with US employment law and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and move quickly with rigor.
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $170,000 - $200,000 per year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Discretionary vacation days
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave
About the Company
- Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.
- Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far more efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.
- Atoms builds Physical AI— real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our 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 work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.
- We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.
- At Atoms, you’ll work on one of the defining challenges of our time—bringing automation into the physical world to drive real, lasting impact.
- We exist to uncover valuable unknown truths and turn them into progress, which means constantly pushing beyond what’s known and building what doesn’t yet exist.
- The work is ambitious and often challenging, but it’s grounded in a shared sense of purpose and a team committed to seeing it through together.
- Our work only matters if it serves others, and we know that meaningful progress depends on the trust of the people we serve and the strength of our team—so we invest in both, creating an environment where you can do your best work and grow.
