Life at ATLAS
We make hardware that has to survive a Monday.
A day
A normal day at ATLAS is a stand-up at 9, a CAD review at 10, and a person in a suit by lunch.
The shop is open. Engineering, design, and field ops sit at the same long table. When a part comes off the machine, the person who designed it is the one who walks it over to the test rig. When a customer calls from a warehouse in Memphis, the call ends up on a speaker the whole team can hear.
Field
We test on real floors, not in a lab.
Every two weeks an engineer flies out with a hardware kit and runs trials with operators in warehouses, on construction sites, and at fire training grounds. Whoever owns the subsystem owns the field report.
Operator voices
"It feels less like a machine and more like the part of my back that finally showed up to work."
— Maria L., distribution center supervisor, 12 years
Where we work
Amsterdam, NL
Engineering, design, and machine shop under one roof at NDSM-werf, Amsterdam-Noord.
Europe-wide
Active trial sites in NL, DE, BE, and the Nordics. Our field ops team lives close to the work.
Limited
Hardware is best built with hands on the hardware. Most roles are on-site at HQ.
Team principles
Ship, then polish
Working prototype on a person beats a perfect CAD model in a folder.
Operators get the last word
If the person wearing it says it sucks, it sucks.
Own the part
Your name is on the drawing. You walk the field test. You read the failure report.
Strong opinions, soft surfaces
Argue hard at the whiteboard. Be easy to be around in the shop.
