Automation Engineer

About Atomic Industries

Atomic Industries is reinventing how the world makes things. 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.

At 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.

Backed 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.

• •Design, build, and commission automation across injection molding cells and the mold-making factory, including presses, CNCs, EDMs, robots, auxiliary equipment, and material handling
• •Connect machines and devices to Atomic’s centralized platform using OPC UA, Modbus/TCP, MQTT, industrial Ethernet, and vendor-specific interfaces
• •Build 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
• •Develop closed-loop workflows that compare physical production with simulation, including systems for characterizing thermolator performance and monitoring waterline health
• •Establish reusable hardware standards for sensor interfaces, signal conditioning, controllers, connectors, wiring, enclosures, networking, and commissioning
• •Program and integrate PLCs, robot controllers, motion systems, HMIs, machine interlocks, and safety systems
• •Develop 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
• •Productionize successful prototypes with version-controlled configurations, automated testing, diagnostics, observability, documentation, and clear failure behavior
• •Help 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
• •Work across software, simulation, manufacturing, tooling, and operations to identify high-value opportunities and define both immediate solutions and long-term architecture

What We’re Looking For

• +Experience with injection molding, mold tooling, thermolators, scientific molding, or plastics processing
• +Familiarity with CNC machines, EDMs, CMMs, automated material handling, or high-mix manufacturing
• +Experience with digital twins, virtual commissioning, or robotics simulation using OpenUSD, Isaac Sim, ROS, or comparable platforms
• +PCB design, embedded systems, microcontrollers, edge Linux devices, or custom industrial electronics experience
• +Experience with time-series data, event-driven systems, industrial observability, or real-time factory monitoring
• +Background in industrial computer vision, automated inspection, or synthetic-data generation
• +Experience correlating ph