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From cars and aerospace systems to medical devices and packaging, most physical goods begin life in a mold or are shaped by a manufacturing tool. Producing these tools has always been slow, manual, and dependent on scarce expertise, taking weeks or months. We’re changing that.\nAt our Detroit headquarters, we combine the industrial DNA of America’s manufacturing heartland with the speed, intelligence, and precision of Silicon Valley. Our AI-driven platform tackles the hardest problems in geometry, process planning, and fabrication, collapsing production timelines from months to days and soon, minutes. We don’t just build software; we run a fully operational factory where our technology produces production-grade tooling every week, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration.\nBacked by top-tier investors, we’re restoring speed, flexibility, and capability to the American industrial base. Our mission is to make manufacturing as agile and scalable as the digital world, and in doing so, rebuild the infrastructure of the physical economy.\nAbout the Role\nAs an Automation Engineer at Atomic, you’ll build the systems that connect our physical factory to our software platform. You’ll work across sensors, electronics, industrial controls, robotics, machine interfaces, data infrastructure, and simulation to make our equipment observable, programmable, and increasingly autonomous.\nThis is not a traditional plant controls role focused on maintaining an installed base of PLCs. You’ll help define the architecture, standards, and tools through which Atomic’s machines, molds, robots, and production workflows operate as one integrated system. This role is ideal for a software-capable automation generalist who enjoys building real hardware, commissioning it on the factory floor, and owning systems from first prototype through reliable production use.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, build, and commission automation across injection molding cells and the mold-making factory, including presses, CNCs, EDMs, robots, auxiliary equipment, and material handling\nConnect machines and devices to Atomic’s centralized platform using OPC UA, Modbus/TCP, MQTT, industrial Ethernet, and vendor-specific interfaces\nBuild data-acquisition systems for temperature, pressure, force, flow, position, power, vision, and other process signals, linking them to machine cycles, process settings, simulation results, and part-quality data\nDevelop closed-loop workflows that compare physical production with simulation, including systems for characterizing thermolator performance and monitoring waterline health\nEstablish reusable hardware standards for sensor interfaces, signal conditioning, controllers, connectors, wiring, enclosures, networking, and commissioning\nProgram and integrate PLCs, robot controllers, motion systems, HMIs, machine interlocks, and safety systems\nDevelop digital twins and hardware-in-the-loop environments that allow work cells and production sequences to be programmed before the physical mold or line exists\nProductionize successful prototypes with version-controlled configurations, automated testing, diagnostics, observability, documentation, and clear failure behavior\nHelp define and execute the path toward a mold-making factory where programs queue automatically, jobs and materials move between machines, inventory is robotically managed, and assembly is increasingly autonomous\nWork across software, simulation, manufacturing, tooling, and operations to identify high-value opportunities and define both immediate solutions and long-term architecture\nWhat We’re Looking For\nMinimum Qualifications\n3+ years of experience in automation, controls, robotics, mechatronics, test engineering, or a related field\nDemonstrated experience taking automation systems from concept through installation, commissioning, and reliable production operation\nStrong programming skills with AI assistance, and the ability to build maintainable production software rather than one-off scripts\nExperience with industrial communications such as OPC UA, Modbus/TCP, MQTT, or comparable machine protocols\nHands-on experience with sensors, data-acquisition hardware, calibration, analog and digital signals, and electrical troubleshooting\nFluency in at least one PLC or industrial controls ecosystem, with an understanding of machine states, interlocks, fault handling, and deterministic control\nExperience integrating robots, motion systems, machine tools, vision systems, or other production equipment\nAbility to read electrical drawings and create clear schematics, wiring documentation, interface specifications, and commissioning procedures\nUnderstanding of industrial safety and the boundary between higher-level orchestration software and safety-rated machine control\nExcellent communication skills and the ability to work across software engineers, manufacturing engineers, technicians, toolmakers, operators, and external vendors\nA bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics, computer science, or a related discipline-or equivalent practical experience\nBonus Points\nExperience with injection molding, mold tooling, thermolators, scientific molding, or plastics processing\nFamiliarity with CNC machines, EDMs, CMMs, automated material handling, or high-mix manufacturing\nExperience with digital twins, virtual commissioning, or robotics simulation using OpenUSD, Isaac Sim, ROS, or comparable platforms\nPCB design, embedded systems, microcontrollers, edge Linux devices, or custom industrial electronics experience\nExperience with time-series data, event-driven systems, industrial observability, or real-time factory monitoring\nBackground in industrial computer vision, automated inspection, or synthetic-data generation\nExperience correlating physical experiments with CFD, FEA, thermal, or other physics-based simulations\nUnderstanding of ITAR, CMMC, or similar regulatory constraints\nInjection molding experience is not required. 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