Head of Hardware
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Chef Robotics is accelerating the deployment of intelligent machines in the physical world starting with food productiona sector facing the largest labor shortage in the U.S. with 1.14M unfilled jobs today and 3.1M projected by 2030. These roles cannot be offshored making robotics essential to keeping production onshore and strengthening Americas manufacturing base. Backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Construct Bloomberg Beta and Promus Ventures and supported by a world-class team from companies such as Cruise Zoox Google Tesla and Amazon Robotics Chef is rapidly scaling with multiple multi-year contracts and a mission to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen.
In this role youll be a partner to lead the hardware engineering team (and depending on the candidate perhaps also the manufacturing/supply chain team). Our next goal is to build and scale to 1000 robot systems worldwide.
What youll do
- Oversee Chefs hardware engineering org
- Help execute as a player coach
- Help expand the set of ingredients that Chef can manipulate (e.g. sticky cheese fruit piece picking etc.)
- Help design and build Chefs next-gen system
- Help improve reliability / MTBF for Chefs current systems in the field
- Help reduce BOM
- Help set technical direction for HW team
- (Depending on the candidate) Oversee Chefs manufacturing and supply chain team and help scale to 250 500 and then 1000 robots in production.
- Help be on Chefs leadership team. Represent HW team and also help Chef make the right company-level decisions.
- Help hire and build a team as needed
- Help fundraise
Requirements
- Masters or Ph.D. in mechanical engineering electrical engineering or physics
- Has shipped 3 (at least 2) products to market
- Has seen at least one product scale to tens of thousands of users/customers
- Has lead manufacturing (or managed someone who lead manufacturing)
- Has lead supply chain and procurement (or managed someone who lead supply chain and procurement)
- Has 10 years of production engineering experience as an IC tech lead or manager
- Has managed and lead teams in:Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Firmware
- Has worked withPerception / computer vision Machine learning Robotics motion planning and control
- Has been a manager of a team of engineers and a manager of managers (two layers)
- Has been part of at least one startup
- Has scaled an engineering team from 5 people to 15 to 45 people
- Understand the business logic and the business
- Can sell and convince top A-level hires to join the company
- Can represent the company and sell the company to investors for prospective investors
- Can be onsite in our SF office
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