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 of relevant experience 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 and platform architecture for integrating, validating, commissioning, and supporting autonomous mining systems across truck models.
What you'll do
- Own truck integration architecture, commissioning processes, bench and simulation validation, configuration control, and fleet reliability measurement.
- Hire and lead the mining platform engineering team; establish engineering standards and lead design reviews and root-cause processes.
- Support field launches and failures, turning escalations into documented design and process improvements.
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 degree with 10+ years.
- Experience leading engineers on an autonomous or similar program, including hiring, technical direction, and delivery against committed dates.
- Owned 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 and bench validation.
- Experience productizing bespoke engineering, understanding autonomous systems end to end, and establishing reliability or failure-rate measurement; willing to travel to mine and quarry sites and work onsite five days a week in San Francisco.
Pay
$255,000 - $322,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
CAN, CAN FD, automotive Ethernet, hardware-in-the-loop
AI focus
Engineering the platform beneath autonomous mining products, including integration and validation of autonomous systems.
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