Atoms
Senior Director, Mining Autonomous Platform (AV Platform Engineering)
$255K–$322K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 12+ years with a bachelor's degree, or 10+ years with a master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field; or a master's degree.
About the job
Leads the engineering team responsible for the integration, validation, reliability, and field deployment of the autonomy platform for mining vehicles.
What you'll do
- Own truck retrofit and integration architecture, commissioning processes, and configuration control across supported vehicles.
- Build off-machine validation capabilities and oversee fleet reliability measurement, diagnostics, and field-failure corrective actions.
- Hire and lead the mining platform engineering team and establish engineering standards and design-review practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a listed engineering, computing, robotics, or related field with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master's with 10+ years.
- Experience leading engineers on an autonomous or similar program, including hiring, technical direction, and delivery against committed dates.
- Ownership of a vehicle or machine integration platform from architecture through field deployment; hands-on experience with vehicle networks, actuation, electrical and harness architecture, embedded compute and sensors, and hardware-in-the-loop or bench validation.
- Experience productizing platform-specific engineering, understanding autonomous systems end to end, measuring reliability or availability, and serving as senior technical presence at customer or partner sites.
Pay
$255,000 - $322,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
CAN, CAN FD, automotive Ethernet, hardware-in-the-loop
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