# Safety Operations Lead at Atoms

- Company: Atoms
- What the company does: Backed by Initial Capital.
- Company website: https://atoms.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $182K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atoms/jobs/8769613002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atoms-safety-operations-lead/

## About the role

Our safety practice is not a document exercise — it is an operating discipline that has to run at the speed of the fleet. This role owns that discipline. You will stand up and run the operational safety machinery: how we manage incidents, how we train and qualify the people in and around our vehicles, how field events get triaged and routed, and how investigations turn into engineering change. Today these functions exist on a smaller scale.

## What they're looking for

- 6-8+ years in safety operations, fleet safety, transportation safety, or operational risk in a safety-critical domain — commercial trucking, autonomous vehicles, rail, aviation, or industrial operations
- Demonstrated experience leading real incident investigations to root cause and driving corrective actions to closure. We will ask you to walk through specific investigations in detail
- Fluency with structured investigation and risk methods — root cause analysis, causal factor charting, human factors analysis, hazard identification — and the judgment to know which one a given event actually warrants
- Working knowledge of the US vehicle regulatory environment, — AV-specific reporting such as the NHTSA Standing General Order, FMCSA regulations, hours of service. Familiarity with SAE J3016 levels and ODD concepts
- The disposition this work requires: calm under a live incident, rigorous when it would be easier to be reassuring, and willing to be the person who says stop
- Willingness to be on-site and on-call. Incidents do not respect business hours

Tags: Transport - Operations