Senior Real-Time Robotics Software Engineer

Atomic Machines; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and benefits

Job summary

Atomic Machines is seeking a seasoned software engineer in Emeryville/Santa Clara to scale the Matter Compiler platform. You will design distributed software coordinating manufacturing hardware with real-time constraints and robust testing practices.

Responsibilities include architectural decisions, CI/CD, observability, and close collaboration with hardware and process engineers to translate physical constraints into reliable software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building or debugging systems with real external dependencies: hardware, embedded devices, networked services, or similar.
• Track record of making and defending nontrivial architecture decisions — build vs. buy, deployment topology, service boundaries.
• Strong Python skills for production systems, plus proficiency in at least one systems language (C++, Rust, or Go).
• Experience introducing or maintaining CI/CD, automated testing, or observability tooling in a codebase that didn't already have it.
• Comfort operating against an incomplete or contested spec — and a bias toward driving clarity rather than waiting for it.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the distributed software systems that coordinate state, timing, and behavior across manufacturing hardware; write, test, and debug sensors, actuators, and process controllers under real-time and reliability constraints.
• Design workflows that bridge manual and automated process steps, and coordinate handoffs between production and process development.
• Evolve the existing system in place — including but not limited to API development to govern machine behavior across our fleet— as the architecture converges, without waiting for a clean-slate rewrite to start delivering value.
• Instrument systems so machine and process data is legible — not just to humans via logs, but structured for downstream AI/ML consumption.
• Investigate and resolve issues that span software, firmware, and physical systems.
• Establish and model software engineering practices — testing, code review, CI/CD, documentation — appropriate for a team that’s outgrown its current ones.
• Contribute to system reliability through structured observability, fault handling, and graceful degradation.
• Collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to translate physical constraints into resilient software behavior.
• Partner with engineering leadership to help converge competing architectural visions into one well-reasoned direction, rather than waiting for it to be handed down.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Go

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field

Job description

Atomic Machines is seeking a seasoned software engineer in Emeryville/Santa Clara to scale the Matter Compiler platform. You will design distributed software coordinating manufacturing hardware with real-time constraints and robust testing practices.

Responsibilities include architectural decisions, CI/CD, observability, and close collaboration with hardware and process engineers to translate physical constraints into reliable software.