Systems Integration Engineer, Hardware-in--Loop; HIL

Staff Systems Integration Engineer, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)

Who we are

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.

Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.

Atoms builds Physical AI— real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.

This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.

If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Systems Integration Engineer to build and own the hardware-in-the-loop system benches that validate our autonomy stack off-vehicle. In this role, you will own the full system bench end to end, from initial architecture and physical build, through commissioning and automation, to daily use by our software and autonomy teams. This is a deeply hands‑on role: you will define the bench architecture, build and instrument the hardware, write the automation that runs it, and leave behind strong documentation

What you’ll do

• System Bench Architecture & Build:
  Own the design and construction of our system benches, including bench topology, electrical architecture, schematic capture, component selection and sourcing, harness design and fabrication, physical build, and commissioning. Establish and document the correlation between bench behavior and vehicle behavior, including where the bench diverges and what that means for test validity.
• Vehicle & Network Simulation:
  Simulate the vehicle systems that are not physically present on the bench, so that the autonomy compute operates against a complete simulated vehicle system. This includes generating the network traffic the absent controllers would produce, along with power and ignition states, drive‑by‑wire actuation, and body and charging behavior across CAN, CAN FD, and Automotive Ethernet. Implement the gateway and signal‑override paths that allow an engineer to command any vehicle state, including states the base vehicle cannot readily produce.
• Sensor Data Replay:
  Implement replay of recorded sensor and vehicle data into the autonomy compute, time‑synchronised to original timestamps and at full rate, so that on‑road events become repeatable bench tests. Own the interfaces, data flows, and synchronization across subsystems, beginning with open‑loop replay and architecting for closed‑loop replay as a follow‑on capability.
• Test Automation & Continuous Integration:
  Design and maintain the automated test frameworks that allow bench execution to be triggered by a code change, gate software releases, run unattended, and report results in a form that engineers outside the hardware team can interpret without assistance.
• Fault Injection & Off‑Nominal Validation:
  Define and execute validation covering fault injection, degraded‑mode and fail‑operational behavior, redundant compute and power paths, and loss‑of‑communication conditions, in support of L4 requirements and the evidence a system safety case requires.
• Tooling Strategy & Sourcing:
  Own build‑versus‑buy decisions for bench hardware and software, and be accountable for the cost, lead time, and long‑term maintenance burden of those decisions. Manage suppliers and vendor tool chains where commercial platforms are selected.
• Cross‑Functional Support & Debugging:
  Support the autonomy, embedded, hardware, and vehicle…