Director NPI and Industrialization

You will own robotic-cell hardware from system architecture through design freeze and transfer to contract manufacturing. You will lead mechanical, electrical, controls, gripper, safety, reliability, documentation, cost, and roadmap work. You will also hire and lead hardware and mechatronics engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own robotic-cell system design across mechanical, electrical, controls, vision, sensor, wiring, and safety integration
• Lead development of adaptive force-controlled grippers and end-effectors
• Take products from prototype through DVT and qualification to released designs
• Build design for manufacture, assembly, service, and cost into products
• Run the Design-Transfer Gate with Supply Chain
• Install reliability engineering practices including DVT, HALT, FMEA, and tolerance analysis
• Drive root-cause analysis of field failures
• Establish PLM, BOM, drawing, specification, configuration-management, and change-control practices
• Own the hardware roadmap and design-to-cost programs
• Hire and lead hardware and mechatronics engineers

Requirements

• 10+ years in hardware, mechatronics, or electromechanical product engineering
• Several years leading engineering teams
• Experience taking complex electromechanical products from prototype through design freeze into series production
• Experience building a hardware engineering or industrialization function in a scaleup or growth-stage company
• Hands-on mechanical, electrical, and controls integration expertise
• Experience with DfX, reliability engineering, PLM, configuration management, and change control
• Experience transferring released designs to contract manufacturers or EMS partners
• Fluent English
• Willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites

Benefits

• Equity
• Flexible PTO