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Responsibilities
- Own the robotics product roadmap and delivery plan — the milestones, the schedule, and the shipped outcome — and hold the organization accountable to it.
- Drive products end to end through the full development lifecycle: architecture, industrial design, prototyping, design validation, production validation, ramp, and launch.
- Own hardware productization at scale — manufacturability, quality, reliability, yield, and cost of goods — in partnership with Supply Chain and Manufacturing.
- Make and defend the consequential product decisions: form factor, platform architecture, build-versus-buy, and what ships in which release.
- Establish the operating cadence, program management discipline, and execution bar required to ship complex hardware and software on a predictable schedule.
- Direct applied technical investment toward shipping outcomes — ensuring embodied AI, machine learning, and systems work is sequenced against product milestones.
- Build, manage and support diverse teams of engineering directors and managers across multiple sites.
- Provide both technical and organizational leadership.
- Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships across MSL, TBD, Reality Labs Research, Product, Design, Safety, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Legal, and Policy.,.
- Establish effective strategies and execute against them.
- Own the product-quality, safety, and reliability standard for physical robotic systems, including regulatory and certification requirements for consumer deployment.
- Foster an environment of respect, integrity, inclusion, and innovation.
- Recruit and retain top talent across hardware, software, AI, and manufacturing disciplines.
Minimum Qualifications
- 15+ years of technical industry experience
- 10+ years of management experience
- Experience as VP or C-level of an engineering organization at a company operating at scale
- Experience managing and scaling organizations
- Experience shipping physical hardware products to customers at volume, with ownership of the outcome
- Experience owning a multi-year hardware and software program through to launch, including schedule, quality, and cost commitments
- Experience leading hardware productization in partnership with supply chain, manufacturing, and contract manufacturers
- Experience integrating advanced software or AI capabilities into shipping consumer or commercial products
- Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
- Experience analyzing, interpreting, and leveraging data to make business decisions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing robotics and engineering products at scale
- Experience bringing a new hardware product category from concept to high-volume production
- Experience with new product introduction, design and production validation, manufacturing ramp, and supplier qualification
- Experience owning cost of goods, bill of materials, and margin structure for a hardware product line
- Experience with consumer product safety, regulatory certification, and reliability qualification for physical autonomous systems
- Working familiarity with modern robot learning and how it translates into product capability: reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer, and manipulation
- Experience retaining senior engineering and AI talent through organizational or leadership change
- Advanced degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
$486,000/year to $527,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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