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Salary: USD 182,000 - 228,000 / annual
Atoms is building Physical AI—real-world robots for industries including food, mining, and transport. The company integrates hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate to deploy and operate autonomous systems at scale.
You will own quality for the compute box build from incoming material through shipment. This is a foundational role: you will set inspection standards, control plans, and disposition processes for the production line, hold the release gate on every unit, and drive defects to root cause with engineering and suppliers.
Key responsibilities:
- Write and maintain the control plan and PFMEA for compute box assembly as process and design evolve
- Set incoming inspection standards for PCBAs, machined and sheet-metal parts, harnesses, and cables with risk-matched sampling plans and acceptance criteria
- Define in-process and outgoing inspection: what is checked, where, by whom, to what standard, and what evidence is recorded
- Hold the release gate: no compute box ships without passing it, even under schedule pressure
- Own the nonconformance process: NCR intake, containment, MRB disposition, rework instructions, and audit-ready records
- Drive root cause and corrective action on production defects with electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing engineering; verify fixes before closure
- Own supplier quality for compute box components
- Define serialization and traceability so the build history of any fielded unit can be recovered
- Define the quality metric set: first-pass yield, defects per unit by category, escape rate
- Partner with manufacturing test engineering to ensure inspection and test cover the product without gaps or duplication
- Feed manufacturability and inspectability issues back to design; hold a seat in design and engineering change reviews
- Build the documentation backbone for the company's quality management system
The role requires onsite work five days a week in San Francisco, with travel to supplier and contract manufacturing sites. Floor work involves PPE, lifting up to 50 lbs, and working at rack level and on vehicles.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field
- 6+ years in manufacturing quality, NPI quality, or supplier quality on electronic or electromechanical hardware (PCBA, box build, harnesses)
- Experience with compute, ECU, or electronics box-build quality in automotive, autonomous vehicle, robotics, or aerospace programs
- Demonstrated ability to set up quality on a new line or new product (control plans, inspection plans, disposition process) without an established organization
- Fluency in PFMEA, control plans, 8D, 5-Why, and fishbone as working tools
- Ownership experience with an MRB or nonconformance disposition process
- Ability to read mechanical drawings and GD&T, schematics, and BOMs well enough to write inspection criteria
- Proficiency pulling and analyzing yield and defect data
