# Senior Director, Mining Autonomous Platform (AV Platform Engineering) at Atoms

- Company: Atoms
- What the company does: Backed by Initial Capital.
- Company website: https://atoms.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $255K to $322K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atoms/jobs/8735097002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atoms-senior-director-mining-autonomous-platform-av-platform-engineering/

## About the role

We are hiring a Senior Director, Mining Autonomy Platform Engineering to lead the team that owns the platform beneath our autonomous mining products.

## What they're looking for

- Required: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master's with 10+
- Experience leading engineers on an autonomous or similar program, including hiring, setting technical direction, and delivering against committed dates
- Ownership of a vehicle or machine integration platform from architecture through field deployment, with personal accountability for how the system was installed, validated, and supported
- Experience converting bespoke, per-customer or per-platform engineering into a configurable product with documented interfaces
- Working understanding of autonomous systems end to end, including sensing, perception, localization, planning, controls, and the associated safety architecture
- Track record of establishing reliability, availability, or failure-rate measurement that changed how an organization set priorities

Tags: Mining - Engineering