What We Value:
- Impact: You will own significant responsibility and have total ownership over your work. We stay lean and efficient, so your work directly impacts the product we ship every day.
- Simplicity: Complexity is a waste of time here—we take pride in building things that just work.
- Hard Work: Forget the glamorous research papers. We prioritize the hard work it takes to achieve real-world clarity and accuracy. You will innovate relentlessly to push the boundaries of what’s possible in visual automation.
- Humility: No task is beneath you. Whether it's high-level architecture or grunt work to fix a bug, we check our egos at the door and get real work done.
- Ruthless Prioritization: If everything is on fire, nothing is. You will be expected to prioritize ruthlessly, cutting through distractions to focus on the most impactful product improvements.
- Customer Innovation: We are customer-centric, not customer-pleasing. You won’t bend to every client demand; you will let innovation drive the product forward to solve the real problems our users face.
- Efficiency: Meetings suck. We keep them short and only use them for alignment, giving you your time back to focus on real work.
You Will Be
- Owning mass production, quality assurance (QA) and contract manufacturing (CM) management
- Leading contract manufacturers through ramp and mass production
- Driving build readiness, production schedules, and on-time delivery
- Managing yield, capacity planning, and factory performance
- Creating and implementing scalable QA processes and quality criteria
- Defining inspection standards, acceptance criteria, and production controls
- Owning yield improvement and root cause analysis
- Driving corrective/preventive actions (CAPA)
- Establishing quality metrics that support growth and reliability
- Aligning manufacturing strategy with product requirements and business goals
- Providing clear, no-surprise updates to leadership
- Acting as the escalation point for production and quality issues
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in hardware operations, manufacturing, QA, or program management
- Professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese (written and spoken) is required. You must be able to communicate technical specifications and negotiate timelines directly with factory floor leads and overseas suppliers without a translator
- Ability to travel (domestic and international) up to 25% to visit manufacturing sites and vendors
- Proven experience releasing products into mass production
- Strong experience managing contract manufacturers
- Deep understanding of NPI, ramp, and manufacturing processes
- Experience building or improving QA systems
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Consumer electronics or hardware startup experience
- Familiarity with NPI processes and manufacturing ramp
- Experience working closely with Asia-based supply chains
- Proven ability to use AI tools to design and implement automation systems that eliminate manual work, streamline operations, and increase manufacturing and quality execution efficiency
What We Offer
- An opportunity to work on a small, multidisciplinary team with the potential to break new ground in many different industries
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- 401k plan
- Flexible PTO policy
- Catered lunch in office with fully stocked snacks and beverages
- Pet insurance for your fur babies
- Voluntary life insurance plan
- Competitive salary and options in a small, rapidly scaling company
