Product Engineer

Atomic Machines is ushering in a new era of micromanufacturing with its Matter Compiler™ technology platform. This platform enables new classes of micromachines to be designed and built by providing manufacturing processes and a materials library that are inaccessible to semiconductor manufacturing methods. It unlocks MEMS manufacturing not only for device classes that could never be produced by semiconductor methods, but also for entirely new categories.

Furthermore, this digital platform is fully programmable in the way 3D printing is digital—but whereas 3D printing produces parts of a single material using a single process, the Matter Compiler™ technology platform is a multi-process, multi-material system: bits and raw materials go in, and complete, functional micromachines come out. The Atomic Machines team has also created an exciting first device—made possible only through the Matter Compiler™ technology platform—that we will be unveiling to the world soon.

Our offices are in Emeryville and Santa Clara, California.

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…