Top 3 Priority Roles at ChefRobotics.ai

Chef Robotics's goal is to put a robot in every commercial kitchen around the world. We are solving the number one problem the food industry faces--a crushing labor shortage--and we’re catching extremely fast customer traction. Our team consists of senior/staff engineers from companies like Cruise, Google, Tesla, Nuro, Neuralink, Facebook, Kitty Hawk, and Zoox. We’re backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, have already signed multi-year 8-figure deals with food companies in a multi-trillion-dollar market, and are playing in an extremely constrained problem-space and in a substantially less regulated industry than autonomous vehicles.


Chef has taken a unique approach to food automation by 1) targeting b2b businesses vs a b2c restaurant, 2) choosing a customer segment where there's a real problem that robots can help with, and 3) building a solution that is sufficiently constrained and yet flexible.


More about our goal:?https://chefrobotics.ai/mission
More about our principles:?https://chefrobotics.ai/principles?
More about benefits:?https://chefrobotics.ai/careers

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Robotics Test Technician

As a Robotics Test Technician, you will help the Performance team assess the performance, reliability, and usability of our robots.?

What you’ll do

• Perform routine software and hardware tests.
• Document and communicate test results with the engineering team.
• Keep documented test procedures up to date.
• Collect data about robot performance.
• Travel to customer facilities to assist with on-site operations.

Requirements

• 2+ years in a similar role?
• Familiarity with Linux and CLI.
• Experience performing tests on physical systems.
• Keen attention to detail and ability to follow instructions.
• Able to communicate technical information clearly.
• Access to a personal vehicle for travel to customer sites 2-3 days per week. Mileage will be reimbursed.?

?Nice to Have

• Experience at a robotics company.
• Exposure to ROS (Robot Operating System).
• Experience building test fixtures and automated testing routines.
• Exposure to software development concepts, programming languages (C++ and Python).
• Experience with basic hardware design, fabrication techniques, and mechanics of materials.

Performance/Test Engineer

As a Performance/Test Engineer at Chef, you will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to evaluate and maintain the performance, reliability, and usability of our robots.?

?What you’ll do

• Develop and maintain processes to identify and resolve issues before they reach production.
• Monitor robot performance in a production environment.
• Perform Root-Cause Analysis to isolate mission-critical performance issues.
• Work with domain experts to implement fixes for performance issues.
• Communicate key issues with the engineering team.
• Develop automated and semi-automated test frameworks.
• Analyze production data to observe trends in system performance.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience testing robotic systems.
• B.S in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical, or similar engineering degree.
• Familiarity with Python, SQL, and Linux.
• Strong analytical reasoning, organizational, communication, and prioritization skills.
• Experience building test fixtures and automated testing routines.

Nice to Have

• Experience with basic HW design, fabrication techniques, mechanics of materials.
• Experience with ROS (Robot Operating System).
• Experience building cloud-based data pipelines and services.

Head of Autonomy

In this role, you'll be a partner to the CEO and lead our autonomy engineering team (perception, robotics, performance, etc).?

Requirements

• Can be onsite in our SF office?
• Masters or Ph.D. in computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or physics?
• Has shipped at least 2 products to market, ideally in robotics
• Has seen at least one product scale to at least hundreds of units.
• Has 10+ years of production engineering experience as an IC, tech lead, or manager?
• Has lead teams in perception/computer vision, Machine learning, Robotics motion planning and control
• Has an understanding of hardware at the minimum. Understands Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Firmware?
• 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