About the role
We are looking for a Robotics Test Engineer with 5-7 years of experience to join the Adams Transport team and help scale device bring-up and testing infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. You'll be part of a new but well-resourced transportation division, leveraging proven technology from Pronto's autonomous mining platform to build out testing processes for vehicle integration. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape how new vehicles are onboarded, tested, and validated within a modular, OEM-agnostic autonomous stack. The team is engineering-led, fast-moving, and deploying real technology into production environments—not running simulations in a lab.
What will you be doing?
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Creating processes and writing software for flashing, bring-up, and testing new vehicle devices across multiple OEMs (Toyota, Hyundai, Hitachi, etc.)
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Debugging complex software-to-hardware integration issues alongside technicians, electrical engineers, and other robotics engineers
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Building hardware-in-the-loop tests for actuation, burn-in, and bench testing
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Developing tools and test frameworks for technicians—including visualization, test deployment, result tracking, and test execution
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Assessing and building scalable processes to bring new devices live and operating within the company's autonomous software stack
About Atoms
Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress. Founded by Travis Kalanick after leaving Uber, Atoms represents the consolidation of eight years of technology development across multiple divisions — bringing Physical AI to the industries that move civilization forward.
The company operates across three core verticals:
- Atoms Food (formerly CloudKitchens) — kitchen infrastructure and software empowering food & beverage operators to expand with minimal upfront capital
- Atoms Mining (formerly Pronto AI) — autonomous vehicles for heavy machinery, with 100+ trucks in live operation hauling millions of tons
- Atoms Transport — a new division scaling autonomous vehicle technology into existing OEM ecosystems for transportation
Atoms takes a modular, OEM-agnostic approach — integrating autonomous robotic technology into existing vehicles and equipment (Hitachi, Komatsu, Toyota, Hyundai) rather than replacing them. Both the food and mining divisions are live production ecosystems with real customers, not experimental or simulated environments.
The culture at Atoms is engineering-first. Engineers and engineering leaders make the primary decisions that impact the company — not operations or finance. This means regardless of level, engineers have outsized impact compared to traditional large tech companies. The work is ambitious, often challenging, and grounded in a shared sense of purpose to bring automation into the physical world.
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Job details
Salary
$182,000 - $230,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
5+ years
Company
Funding
Total raised
$1.7B
Last stage
Growth
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.