HR Generalist - Transport & Mining
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Hr
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3-5 years of HR experience, ideally as an HR Generalist in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or a high-growth start-up.
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience accepted.
- Experience supporting hourly, field, or manufacturing employees across multiple US states, including exempt vs. non-exempt classification. International exposure is a plus.
- Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn payroll management, human resource information system (HRIS), and similar computer applications. Workday experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills: comfortable with spreadsheets, building reports, and pulling insight from HRIS data.
- Hungry and builder-minded: you've worked without a playbook, figured it out, and stayed with a problem until it was fixed. You're comfortable with ambiguity and speed while holding a high bar for qual
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
- Clear, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with a deep care for doing great work. You raise the bar for yourself and others.
- AI-fluent and already using new tools to work faster and improve HR processes at scale.
Full description
Who we are
Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.
Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.
Atoms builds Physical AI – real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.
This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.
We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.
If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.
About the role
As the first HR Generalist on the Transport & Mining HR team, you'll work directly with the Head of HR for Transport & Mining to build the people foundation for two fast-scaling businesses. This role is designed for someone with 3-5 years of HR experience who wants to grow in employee relations, manager coaching, data-driven HR, and operational excellence.
You'll support employees and managers across a diverse workforce: engineers and operations teams in San Francisco, manufacturing technicians, and hourly field teams at customer sites in the US and internationally. You'll own day-to-day HR operations, keep our people data accurate, ensure compliance, and help deliver the people programs that let these teams scale. Your job is to help us move from reactive to proactive while the organization is still being built.
The ideal candidate brings a service mindset, exceptional attention to detail, and sound judgment in a fast-paced environment. You'll be equally comfortable supporting an engineer in HQ and a technician on a shift schedule.
What you’ll doEmployee Relations & Manager Coaching
- Serve as the first point of contact for employee and manager questions across Transport & Mining, providing guidance on HR policies, benefits, leaves, and local requirements.
- Handle employee relations intake, documentation, resolution tracking, and trend spotting, and partner with Employee Relations on investigations and complex cases.