Manufacturing Engineer
Atomic Machines
Emeryville, CA · $150k–$180k a year · Posted November 6, 2026
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Where Emeryville, CA ranks
Where Emeryville, CA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #4Best cities for director and executive jobs in the West Coast27% · of 71
- #7Best all-round cities for new graduates in the West Coast61 / 100 · of 39
- #11Best cities for pay after cost of living in California$172k · of 32
- #13Best cities for pay after cost of living in the West Coast$172k · of 39
- #19Cities with the most hybrid jobs in the West Coast14% · of 66
- #20Best cities for junior jobs in California27% · of 54
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
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- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $165,000 a year. Across 417 open manufacturing engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $88,000 to $126,000 and the median is $102,500. That is 61% above the median, above the middle half of those listings.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
AI use among industrial engineers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for industrial engineers: 4% (little observed).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
Atomic Machines is building the Matter Compiler™, the first in a new class of AI-native, all-digital manufacturing systems that build working machines directly from code. The Matter Compiler (MC) is a