Atoms
Head of Hardware Manufacturing
$182K–$214K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10-plus years in manufacturing operations, including leadership of a multi-shift production organization.
About the job
Leads hardware manufacturing operations, scaling vehicle retrofit and box-build production across multiple sites while building technician, quality, and leadership teams.
What you'll do
- Oversee end-to-end retrofit and box-build operations, including processes, technicians, tooling, throughput, and production release gates.
- Launch production at two new locations while maintaining existing operations, designing layouts, material flow, and stations.
- Build technician training and leadership structures, and establish independent quality gates with feedback loops to engineering.
What they ask for
- Track record scaling a hardware production operation from zero or near-zero volume, personally designing the production line.
- Experience in a larger, mature manufacturing organization and demonstrated multi-site production launches.
- Strong manufacturing engineering, quality leadership, and technician hiring and training capabilities.
- Proven people leadership at scale; comfortable on the production floor and rigorous with data.
Pay
$182,000 - $214,000 per year (base salary)
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