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About the Role
Own the hardware that brings AI into the physical world. This role owns the full path from spec to delivered, qualified unit, integrating supply chain, NPI, and quality.
Responsibilities
- Scope and spec the hardware, partnering with engineering on design, scoping, and benchmarking.
- Turn benchmark and workload data into hardware specs across deployment tiers, balancing performance, cost, and manufacturability.
- Own new product introduction end to end: prototype, validation testing, and ramp to volume.
- Manage contract manufacturers for build readiness, line setup, first article inspection, and ramp to production.
- Author and maintain manufacturing SOPs, work instructions, and test procedures.
- Define the quality plan, including incoming inspection, in-line and functional test, and outgoing AQL.
- Drive yield and first-pass test rate, owning the failure analysis loop, root cause, and corrective action.
- Run the RMA and field-return process to learn from returned units.
- Own component management, sourcing, and supplier qualification, with attention to long-lead and allocation-constrained parts.
- Secure component supply through forecasting, allocation, buffer strategy, and second-source qualification.
- Drive landed cost down release over release through cost models, RFQs, and negotiation.
- Own inventory, lead times, logistics, fulfillment, and operational systems (Netsuite).
Requirements
- Experience taking a hardware product from design and NPI through to volume production via contract manufacturers/ODMs.
- Experience owning both supply chain and NPI/quality in a single seat.
- Technical ability to reason about benchmarks and specs, write manufacturing SOPs, run DFM reviews, debug test-yield problems, and hold engineering and CMs accountable.
- Hands-on management of CM/ODM relationships, including build readiness, FAI, yield, and quality escapes.
- Proficiency in component management, sourcing, and securing allocation-constrained parts, including credible discussion of GPU and silicon supply.
- Fluency in operations, fulfillment, and supporting systems (ERP/MRP/PLM, logistics, inventory).
- Ability to think in unit economics, build cost models, run RFQs, and drive landed cost down.
- Clear communication skills to translate ambiguous hardware problems into specs, test plans, scorecards, and ramp schedules.
Skills
- Hardware Operations
- Supply Chain Management
- New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Quality Management
- DFM Review
- Manufacturing SOPs
- Test Procedures
- Yield Debugging
- Root Cause Analysis
- Component Sourcing
- Allocation Management
- Cost Modeling
- RFQ Management
- ERP/MRP/PLM Systems
- Logistics
- Inventory Management
- Netsuite
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $240,000
Benefits
- Meaningful early stage equity
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options with little-to-no cost for employees and dependents
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability plans
- Company-paid life insurance
- 401K with employer match
About the Company
- Spot AI turns cameras into coworkers, building the category of AI coworkers for the physical world.
- Our platform enables businesses to understand, automate, and act across their environments in real time.
- Spot AI is relied on at over 10,000 locations by more than 1,000 customers across manufacturing, construction, logistics, and retail.
- Backed by over $110 million from investors including Scale, Redpoint, Qualcomm Ventures, StepStone, and Bessemer.
- We move fast, take ownership, and focus on outcomes, building a company for people who want to solve real problems and have a direct impact on how businesses operate.
Equal Opportunity
- We are creating and cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture where we celebrate individuals for what they accomplish, no matter who they are.
- As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.