VP, Engineering - Integrated Robotics Systems

Location: San Francisco Bay Area; on-site

Salary: $250,000–$350,000 per year, plus potential equity and benefits.

Company

Retail robotics company developing autonomous robots, computer vision systems, and cloud-based analytics for in-store intelligence and retail operations.

What you will do

• Own engineering strategy, execution, and delivery across hardware and software domains.
• Align mechanical, electrical, embedded, AI, cloud, and data architectures into a cohesive platform.
• Establish scalable engineering processes, quality standards, and release discipline.
• Ensure production readiness, field reliability, and measurable performance across retail environments.
• Partner with Product, Commercial, Customer Success, and Operations to align engineering priorities with customer and business outcomes.
• Build and develop high-performing, cross-disciplinary engineering leadership.

Requirements

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations delivering deployed robotic or IoT systems at scale.
• Direct oversight of both hardware and software teams.
• Strong systems-thinking experience integrating mechanical, electrical, embedded, AI, and cloud architectures.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations in growth-stage environments and delivering enterprise products to Tier 1 B2B customers.
• Ability to raise engineering rigor while maintaining startup velocity.
• Credible technical leadership across hardware, AI, and software disciplines, with experience connecting technical investments to business impact.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on retail innovation using AI and robotics technologies.
• Dynamic, inclusive, results-driven, empathetic, transparent, agile, and innovative culture.
• Medical, financial, and other employee benefits.
• Potential equity compensation as part of the total package.