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Salary: USD 182,000 - 238,000 / annual
Atoms is building Physical AI—real-world robots for industries including food, mining, and transport. The company integrates hardware, software, AI, operations, and manufacturing to deploy autonomous systems into real-world environments at scale.
You will serve as the Senior Hardware Reliability & Environmental Test Engineer, owning the hardware qualification standard and all reliability and environmental testing across Atoms' robotic platforms. This is a foundational technical role that sets the bar for how the company validates that its machines work reliably in the field.
Key responsibilities:
- Define hardware qualification standards, including environmental requirements, test methods, and acceptance criteria
- Establish reliability and availability requirements for hardware systems and subsystems
- Own the design verification plan and report, covering thermal cycling, shock, humidity, vibration, dust and water ingress, corrosion, altitude, and fluid resistance
- Collect and analyze field load data to derive mission profiles and accelerated test profiles from measured operating conditions
- Specify, commission, and maintain environmental test equipment, fixturing, instrumentation, and calibration records; determine which testing runs internally versus with external labs
- Manage external test lab relationships
- Plan and execute HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) for design margin and accelerated life testing for life estimation
- Lead DFMEA, fault tree analysis, and reliability block diagram activities; track resulting actions into the verification plan
- Analyze field failures and returned hardware; drive root cause and corrective action; revise test requirements based on results
- Set reliability acceptance criteria for suppliers; review and challenge supplier qualification data; specify additional testing where application conditions are not covered
This role requires working onsite five days a week in San Francisco, with travel to production and field sites.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, materials, or related engineering field (equivalent hands-on experience considered in place of degree)
- Deployed fleet experience in autonomous vehicles, EV, or robotics
- 10+ years in hardware reliability, environmental test, or design validation on electromechanical and electronic hardware
- Ownership of environmental and accelerated life test programs end-to-end across multiple products or programs, including test plan development, level and duration selection, execution, and reporting
- Experience defining a reliability or qualification standard applied by more than one team, and driving adoption across teams outside your reporting line
- Working knowledge of test methods with ability to tailor test requirements to an application
- Experience deriving test profiles from measured field data, including instrumentation, data acquisition, and post-processing
- Proficiency in DFMEA, fault tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth, and Weibull analysis
- Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco with travel to production and field sites
