Mechanical Engineering Lead

About The Role:

Problems You'll Solve:

• Deliver systems with performance capabilities at micron-to-submicron precision, enabling high-volume, high-mix combinatorial manufacturing capability.
• Develop systems capable of executing novel manufacturing processes to meet cutting edge product requirements.
• Chart the roadmap from prototypes through qualification, repeatable machine builds and sustained operation supporting high-volume device production.
• Building cutting-edge machines for world-class fabrication processing.

Build, Own, Drive

• Build. You help set the bar, participate in interviews, and help grow the team to support our corporate needs and vision. You’ll learn to coach engineers, give feedback, and develop them into stronger contributors and future leads.
• Own. You hold responsibility for your team’s outcomes. You oversee Node performance, throughput, reliability, and cost through direct architectural definition and technical leadership. You uphold engineering standards and drive root-cause problem solving using frameworks like DMAIC.
• Drive. You set priorities for your team and own delivery of your programs in partnership with your Director. You empower your engineers, lead by example through tough technical problems, and apply phase-gate processes to ensure production readiness.

How We Work

• Fast learning loops. In-house robotics labs and our shop and build team let you validate machine designs early and iterate within weeks. Our Hybrid Fab supports device and process validation using your equipment.
• First principles over opinions. We decide through analysis, experiments, and open technocratic debate.
• System in the loop. Your machines produce devices for customers, so your work gets tested by physics and by the market.
• Forecasts over predictions. We cannot predict the future with certainty, but we can update our priors with new evidence and revise our forecasts, accelerated by fast learning loops, driving us toward convergence between our forecasts and actuals.

What You’ll Need:

• Designing robotic systems from concept to production release.
• Optical systems design and manufacturing.
• High-vacuum systems, deposition equipment, or vacuum material handling.
• Fluid handling, dispensing, or electrochemical processing systems.

Ideally Your Background

• 8+ years developing complex integrated systems as an individual contributor or technical lead.
• No prior people management experience required. You’ve led informally through your technical work (mentoring engineers, leading projects, running design reviews) and are excited to grow into a people leader with training and coaching from your Director of Engineering.
• A record of mentoring engineers and helping them grow, and a genuine interest in hiring and developing people.
• Deep expertise in precision engineering, machine design, systems development, and the fundamentals to back it up.
• A record of delivering complete systems from concept through qualification, documentation, and sustained volume production.
• Experience turning ambiguous requirements and new process physics into working machines with customer stakeholders and process engineers.
• Technical leadership: guiding technical direction, improving engineering tools and processes, and mentoring other engineers.
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Atomic Machines is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and does not discriminate based on characteristics protected by applicable law. We are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including for individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact rc@atomicmachines.com. To help our recruiting team manage application volume and respond to candidates more efficiently, Atomic Machines may use AI-assisted tools.