DFM Engineer: Computational Geometry for Microfabrication

Atomic-Machines; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

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Job summary

Atomic Machines is hiring for a DFM software engineer to translate device geometry into manufacturable geometry within the Matter Compiler platform. You will work across design and process engineering to enforce constraints and push toward auditable, testable rules grounded in fabrication reality.

The role spans early career through staff levels, with emphasis on practical DFM implementation, geometry kernels, and collaboration with AI, Modeling and Simulation teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience or a PhD in a related field.
• Practical DFM experience with code that generates geometry under real manufacturing constraints.
• Working computational geometry ability: 2D boolean operations, polygon offsetting, packing and no-fit-polygon reasoning.
• Strong software engineering: Python plus a systems language and comfort with geometry kernels via APIs.
• Willingness to ground work in fab-derived evidence and iterate with process engineers.

Responsibilities

• DFM as a software capability, turning device geometry into manufacturable geometry.
• Encode manufacturability constraints to surface infeasibility early.
• Bridge between process intuition and code with design and process engineers.
• Provide physical grounding by moving DFM decisions toward process-based criteria.
• Define correct layouts, test against fab runs, and feed learning back into models.
• Build a knowledge base from production history for calibration and regression testing.

Skills

Python

C++

Computational geometry

Geometry kernels/APIs

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Math, Computational Design

Tools

Shapely

Clipper

OpenCascade

CGAL

Job description

Atomic Machines is hiring for a DFM software engineer to translate device geometry into manufacturable geometry within the Matter Compiler platform. You will work across design and process engineering to enforce constraints and push toward auditable, testable rules grounded in fabrication reality.

The role spans early career through staff levels, with emphasis on practical DFM implementation, geometry kernels, and collaboration with AI, Modeling and Simulation teams.