Head of Hardware, Chef Robotics
Autonomous cooking robot developer
Be an early applicant
Autonomous cooking robot developer
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the advent of intelligent machines in the world to empower humans to do what humans do best.
Role
Who you are
- Masters or Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or physics
- Has shipped 3+ (at least 2) products to market
- Has seen at least one product scale to tens of thousands of users/customers
- Has lead manufacturing (or managed someone who lead manufacturing)
- Has lead supply chain and procurement (or managed someone who lead supply chain and procurement)
- Has 10+ years of production engineering experience as an IC, tech lead, or manager
- Has managed and lead teams in: Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Firmware
- Has worked with Perception / computer vision, Machine learning, Robotics motion planning and control
- 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
- Can be onsite in our SF office
- If you find yourself excited by our mission but you don't check every box in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway!
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll be a partner to lead the hardware engineering team (and, depending on the candidate, perhaps also the manufacturing/supply chain team)
- Our next goal is to build and scale to 1,000 robot systems worldwide
- Oversee Chef's hardware engineering org
- Help execute as a player coach
- Help expand the set of ingredients that Chef can manipulate (e.g., sticky cheese, fruit, piece picking, etc.)
- Help design and build Chef's next-gen system
- Help improve reliability / MTBF for Chef's current systems in the field
- Help reduce BOM
- Help set technical direction for HW team
- (Depending on the candidate) Oversee Chef's manufacturing and supply chain team and help scale to 250, 500, and then 1000 robots in production
- Help be on Chef's leadership team. Represent HW team and also help Chef make the right company-level decisions
- Help hire and build a team as needed
- Help fundraise
Our take
In recent years, kitchen automation has surged, yet challenges persist in addressing the nuanced complexities of food preparation and assembly.
Chef Robotics tackles this by prioritising food assembly over cooking, acknowledging the diverse factors that shape culinary outcomes. With ChefOS - its advanced robotics and AI-driven software - Chef Robotics navigates the intricacies of ingredient preparation, cooking methods, and storage conditions, ensuring consistent quality across diverse recipes and ingredients.
Chef's 2025 funding round underscores investor confidence in its innovative approach. With a focus on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS), Chef aims to democratise access to advanced automation, offering scalable solutions for food businesses. As it expands across the US and Canada, it is securing partnerships with Fortune 500 food companies, heralding a future where technology enhances culinary excellence, whilst revolutionising efficiency and creativity in the kitchen.
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Insights
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$20.6m
SERIES A
Jan 2024
$10.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $45.9m
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rajat Bhageria
(Founder & CEO)Previously the co-founder and CEO of ThirdEye Technologies. They now write for both Forbes and TechCrunch alongside being a Managing Partner at Prototype Capital.
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