Director Supply Chain & Hardware Operations
Who We Are:
We build the intelligence that lets robots sense, reason, and act in the real world, moving beyond the lab and into everyday industrial settings like warehouses and factories. Our technology closes the automation gaps that traditional systems can't solve. We are on a mission to redefine how physical work gets done, and we're looking for curious, bold thinkers to help shape the future of robotics with us.
Overview:
Our AI-driven pick-and-place and returns-handling cells combine robot arms, adaptive force-controlled grippers, AI vision and a safety cabinet, all driven by Cortex, our vision-language-action model. They already run in live customer operations across the EU and US. We are scaling from around 50 units a year to several hundred, and getting there means moving production to external contract manufacturers with full quality control at the supplier. We're looking for a Director of Supply Chain & Hardware Operations to own the path from a release-ready design to a QA'd unit shipped to the customer. You will report to the CEO and receive frozen designs from our Director of Hardware Product Engineering & Industrialization through a shared Design-Transfer Gate.
Your Responsibilities:
Contract Manufacturing & Industrialization
Move gripper, cell, cabinet and final assembly to external contract manufacturers and EMS partners, with suppliers building to spec and shipping direct to customers where possible
Take frozen designs from Product Engineering into repeatable volume production, including ramp plans, build and work instructions and jigs
Run a first pilot build of grippers outside our own facility within your first 90 days
Supplier Management & Quality
Select, negotiate with and manage suppliers, including commercial terms and capacity planning
Build redundancy for critical single points of failure such as the robot arm and long-lead or sole-source parts
Own incoming inspection, supplier quality, first article inspection, PPM targets and the manufacturing side of the RMA process
Planning, Inventory & Logistics
Build S&OP, forecasting and buffer stock so parts are staged weeks ahead of each deployment
Reduce supplier lead times and keep demo and fleet hardware available
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