About the Role
Own the day-to-day performance of the manufacturing floor and directly manage engineering technicians. This hands-on leadership role involves running the shift, assigning work, resolving issues in real-time, and ensuring builds meet schedule. You will act as the liaison between the technician team and engineering, translating priorities, identifying risks, and coaching technicians.
Responsibilities
- Manage and schedule a team of engineering technicians across shifts, balancing workload against production priorities
- Own the daily production plan: sequence work across computer assembly, cable harnesses, PCB assembly, and 3D printing to hit build targets
- Coach, train, and ramp technicians — set expectations, give real-time feedback, and support career growth
- Partner closely with mechanical and electrical engineering to resolve build issues, assembly documentation gaps, and design-for-manufacturing feedback
- Monitor quality across finished product and in-progress builds; escalate systemic issues to engineering before they scale
- Keep the shop space safe, clean, and organized, and enforce safety and quality standards across the shift
- Own shift-level reporting: throughput, quality issues, blockers, and staffing needs
- Step in on the tools when needed
- Help build out shift processes and documentation as the team scales
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on hardware assembly or fabrication experience
- 1+ years leading or supervising a team
- Track record of managing people in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing or hardware environment
- Comfortable working with unstructured problems and shifting priorities alongside engineering teams
- Strong communicator — can translate engineering priorities into a clear daily plan for a technician team, and surface issues up to engineering
- Must be able to safely lift up to 50lbs and stand for long periods of time
- Action-oriented, extremely organized, mechanically inclined, high attention to detail
- Genuine interest in developing people, not just managing output
Skills
- Wire harness assembly
- PCB assembly
- CAD software (Solidworks or similar)
- Command line
- Linux
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-person
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 3+ years of hands-on hardware assembly or fabrication experience
- 1+ years leading or supervising a team
Salary/Compensations
- $45.00 - $55.00 per hour
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 (Fetch)
- 401(k)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Paid Vacation Time (1h for every 26h worked)
- 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.
- We build 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 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.
- If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.
- Atoms is a company driven by invention and continuous change - we are constantly reimagining our industries, building new products, and refining how we operate.
- We do our best work 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.
