Materials Engineer: Micro‑Machine Process Innovation (Equity)

Atomic Machines; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Atomic Machines, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Emeryville and Santa Clara, is building the Matter Compiler™, a new class of AI-native, all-digital manufacturing systems that translate code into working machines.

We seek a hands-on materials engineer to develop and integrate materials and processes for market-defining devices. This full-time role is based in our Emeryville site within the Process Engineering organization, with equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering with 2–3 years of experience.
• Experience with metals processing and processing-structure-property relationships.
• Hands-on experience with metals, alloys, or coatings.
• Experience with characterization techniques (metallography, SEM, EDS, XRD) or material property tests (tensile, hardness, fatigue).
• Ability to design experiments and communicate results clearly.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute experiments to understand processing-structure-property relationships across a range of materials, with a focus on metals and ceramics.
• Own assigned process development tasks and projects, troubleshoot issues, and contribute improvements to procedures and tool capabilities.
• Operate materials processing equipment for applications such as rolling, forming, alloy heat treatment, thin-film deposition, and bonding.
• Apply bulk and surface characterization techniques to evaluate materials and monitor process outputs.
• Help evaluate incoming materials through supplier documentation review and in-house testing, and contribute to refining material specifications.
• Collaborate with engineers, technicians, and operators to develop processes and transfer materials, procedures, and supporting documentation into fabrication workflows.
• Follow established processing and safety protocols, analyze experimental data, document procedures, maintain accurate records, and communicate key findings.

Skills

Metals fundamentals

Experiment planning

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Materials/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering

Tools

SEM

XRD

EBSD

Job description

Atomic Machines, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Emeryville and Santa Clara, is building the Matter Compiler™, a new class of AI-native, all-digital manufacturing systems that translate code into working machines.

We seek a hands-on materials engineer to develop and integrate materials and processes for market-defining devices. This full-time role is based in our Emeryville site within the Process Engineering organization, with equity and benefits.