Head of Hardware

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Our Team

Chef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown AI has the potential to drive immense change. However we believe AIs biggest impact will be in the physical world given industries like manufacturing food and transportation represent 90% of global GDP. Were starting with food with a goal to put an intelligent robot in every commercial kitchen in the world. We have signed multiple multi-year contracts with various large food companies and we are growing fast. Were backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins Construct Bloomberg BETA and Promus Ventures. We have a great team where you will be surrounded by talented engineers and tech leaders from companies like Cruise Zoox Google Verb Surgical Tesla Nuro Vicarious Amazon Robotics Strateos Built Robotics Facebook Plenty Yelp and Microsoft.

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizen status uniform service member and veteran status marital status age pregnancy status protected medical condition genetic information disability or any other protected status.

Multiple studies have found that a higher percentage of women and BIPOC candidates wont apply if they dont meet every listed qualification. Chef values candidates of all backgrounds. If you find yourself excited by our mission but you dont check every box in the description we encourage you to apply anyway!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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About Our TeamChef Robotics is on a mission to accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the physical world. As the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT has shown AI has the potential to drive immense change. However we believe AIs biggest impact will be in the physical world given industries like manuf...