As a Product Engineer at Atomic Machines, you’ll play a pivotal role in turning novel micro-scale devices into manufacturable, reliable products. You’ll operate at the intersection of design, test, and process engineering—owning product definition, validation, and failure analysis from the earliest prototype through scale-up. This role is tightly integrated with our proprietary Matter Compiler™ platform, giving you a chance to shape what’s possible in digitally-defined manufacturing.
What makes this opportunity stand out is the level of technical ownership and early impact. From your first months, you'll lead meaningful engineering efforts that directly affect product direction, reliability strategy, and customer readiness. You’ll engage with state-of-the-art failure analysis tools, contribute to critical design and validation reviews, and help shape the documentation and processes that support scale and repeatability.
This is a highly cross-functional role where success depends on your ability to translate customer and business needs into clear technical requirements, create structured validation and reliability plans, and drive alignment between design, test, process, and go-to-market. You’ll contribute both technically and strategically—owning critical execution in the near term while shaping productization processes that scale.
If you're drawn to hands-on problem-solving, excited to work on products that have no blueprint, and energized by both deep technical detail and cross-functional coordination, you’ll thrive here.
This position is full-time onsite in our Emeryville location and reports to the Director of Design Engineering.
- Collaborate with the Go-To-Market (GTM) team to translate customer needs into clear, actionable technical requirements. Interface directly with Applications Engineering to align specific products to customer applications.
- Work directly with design engineers to understand development risks and challenges and translate them into device capabilities.
- Develop and maintain customer-facing documentation including datasheets, user manuals, failure analysis reports, final quality control reports, and final packaging. Collaborate on the process for document tracking and change approval.
- Contribute to key internal living documents including Product Requirements Documents and Failure Mode Engineering Analysis.
- Own failure analysis (FA) efforts for both component-level and subsystem prototypes including execution of hands-on investigations and metrology.
- Work cross-functionally with design, process, and manufacturing teams to ensure alignment between product architecture and platform capabilities.
- Define and own product-level validation strategies to ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability from early development through scale-up.
- Participate in system-level design reviews and support continuous improvement of product development processes through lessons learned and feedback from prototyping and testing cycles.
- Influence the evolution of the Matter Compiler™ by identifying new opportunities for platform capabilities that enable novel device features including in-line metrology and testing to evaluate critical-to-function characteristics.
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
- Excellent written communication and organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to create documents and templates to clearly communicate technical information.
- Process-improvement mindset. Enthusiasm for document control and approval improvements.
- First-principles mindset. Ability to evaluate electromechanical systems and data for performance and investigate failures.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into structured technical requirements and product specifications.
- Experience in designing, validating, or testing electrical or electronic components.
- Hands-on comfort with experimental setup, debugging, and iterative refinement in a lab environment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to contribute effectively in multidisciplinary teams and across technical/non-technical functions.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment where both design and manufacturing processes are co-developed.
- Experience creating and developing new documentation systems and processes.
- Experience owning a failure analysis and delivering a final report to internal and external customers.
- Experience participating in FMEA processes.
- Familiarity with failure modes and reliability concerns specific to high-current switching components (e.g., contact wear, arcing, thermal management).
- Familiarity with root cause analysis tools and methodologies such as 5 Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa diagrams, or fault tree analysis.
The compensation for this position also includes equity and benefits.
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Atomic Machines Berkeley, California, USA Office
950 Gilman Street , Suite 800, , Berkeley, CA, United States, 94710
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