Senior Robotics Build Technician — Fleet Integration & QA

ATOMS Careers page; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, &

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time, PT and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit Plan

Team lunch in SoMa office

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is advancing real-world automation by building development vehicles and owning the build standards from fixtures to fleet-wide configuration control.

This Staff Engineering Technician role is full-time and in-person at our SF HQ shop, requiring hands-on leadership and deep wiring/electrical expertise with a focus on manufacturability and reliability across hardware and autonomy teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in vehicle integration or electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of a build process.
• Deep wire harness and vehicle electrical expertise, including harness architecture, terminal and connector selection, and grounding schemes.
• Experience owning configuration control across a fleet or a family of prototypes.
• Ability to lead challenging debug work independently, and to know when a problem requires escalation.
• Track record of raising the standard of other technicians through training, review, and written procedure.
• Ability to handle many simultaneous projects and tasks; must lift up to 50lbs and stand long periods.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, EV, motorsport, aerospace, or heavy equipment is a plus.
• High-voltage safety training for EV work is a plus.
• Experience with vehicle bus analysis (CAN tooling) and Linux is a plus.
• SolidWorks or CAD software experience is a plus.
• Fabrication capability such as machining, welding, or 3D printing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the vehicle build standard, including process, workmanship criteria, checklists, and sign-off.
• Design and build the fixtures, jigs, and kitted assemblies that make builds repeatable.
• Own fleet configuration control and hardware revision tracking.
• Serve as final escalation on cross-disciplinary vehicle failures across mechanical, electrical, and firmware layers.
• Drive design-for-manufacturability and design-for-serviceability changes with hardware and autonomy engineering.
• Plan and sequence retrofit campaigns, including tooling, parts, and downtime.
• Set the training path and workmanship standard for junior and senior technicians.
• Track build time and defect rates, and act on them.
• Represent shop constraints in program planning.
• Help maintain our shop space, where assembly of production parts happens, keeping the space clean and organized.

Skills

Vehicle integration

Prototype build

Electromechanical systems

Build process ownership

Debug leadership

Training & mentoring

CAN tooling

Linux

CAD with SolidWorks

Tools

SolidWorks

CAN tooling

Linux

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is advancing real-world automation by building development vehicles and owning the build standards from fixtures to fleet-wide configuration control.

This Staff Engineering Technician role is full-time and in-person at our SF HQ shop, requiring hands-on leadership and deep wiring/electrical expertise with a focus on manufacturability and reliability across hardware and autonomy teams.