Applications Engineer, Chef Robotics
$75-175k
+ Equity
More information about location
Autonomous cooking robot developer
Open for applications
Autonomous cooking robot developer
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$75-175k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- If you’re excited about working in a customer-facing role on hard technical problems and you thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment of an early-stage startup, we’d love to hear from you
- BS, MS, in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 3+ years experience in a customer-facing role in applications engineering, deployment, solutions engineering, or similar roles
- Prior experience in two or more of the following areas: machine learning, motion planning, robotics, computer vision, or control
- Prior experience with at least one of the following areas: product engineering, applications engineering, solutions engineering, sales engineering, or forward deployed engineering
- Demonstrated track record of shipping products quickly and efficiently
- Able to work independently and with minimal supervision
- Ability to travel 50% of your time
- Be available to work a flexible schedule to support customers, including some weekends, nights, and on-call hours
- Familiar with Linux/Unix and/or Robot Operating System (ROS); Python or Linux experience is a plus
- Strong communications and project management skills to recognize, communicate, and properly document product issues, complaints and improvements
What the job involves
- Chef is seeking Applications Engineers to serve as a vital link between our customers and our engineering teams
- In this role, you’ll work in the field with new customers’ engineering and manufacturing teams to understand their unique processes, challenges, and goals and help translate those needs into actionable insights for Chef’s hardware, software, and product teams
- This is an opportunity to use your deep technical expertise and passion for robotics while having a direct impact on our sales process and our revenue stream
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing one of the core drivers of the company’s success: our relationships with our customers
- Please note that this is not a software applications engineering role
- This is a customer facing role where you’ll be deployed at our customers’ facilities at least 50% of the time
- Act as the face of Chef Robotics in the field, leading the in-field deployment of Chef’s systems at customer sites from engagement to site acceptance tests
- Develop models and metrics to help build an ROI case by quantifying the manufacturing process improvements that the robots can achieve
- Collaborate with Chef’s Engineering and Project Management teams to prioritize and collect customer feature requests and requirements
- Work with Chef’s Sales and Business Development teams to help close customers by addressing feature requests, questions, technical risks, and getting overall buy-in from a technology perspective
- Serve as a touchpoint for the customer to ensure they have a great experience with our team and our product
- Prepare and develop technical presentations to explain our company's products or services to customers
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 prioritizing food assembly over cooking, acknowledging the diverse factors that shape culinary outcomes. With its advanced robotics and AI-driven software, ChefOS, the company navigates the intricacies of ingredient preparation, cooking methods, and storage conditions, ensuring consistent quality across diverse recipes and ingredients.
Chef's recent funding round underscores investor confidence in its innovative approach. With a focus on robotics-as-a-service (RaaS), Chef aims to democratize access to advanced automation, offering scalable solutions for food businesses. As it expands across the US and Canada, securing partnerships with Fortune 500 food companies, Chef heralds a future where technology enhances culinary excellence, revolutionizing efficiency and creativity in the kitchen.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$10.5m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$7.7m
SEED
Total funding: $25.3m
Company values
- Customer and User Obsession: We’re here to serve our customers and users. Go backwards from the customers and obsess after giving them the best experience possible
- Deliver results and follow through: Results matter, not "effort." Done is better than perfect. Finish what you start. A documented mistake of an idea that didn't work is positive. Constantly release, test, and deploy little bytes instead of waiting for one large deployment
- Move with extreme velocity and focus: Velocity matters. We’re serving customers where a little downtime can cost millions. Ship fast and be laser focused on what matters. Work smart and hard
- Meritocracy to find the truth: The best idea wins not your seniority. Use logic to support your thinking. Always discuss the idea not attack the speaker. When a decision is made, disagree and commit wholly
- Radical transparency: No passive aggression. If someone isn’t doing something right, tell them. Be brutally honest with feedback and don’t sugar coat anything. Trust in your team
- Hire the very best people: If enough smart people are in a room together, we'll figure it out. Hire slow rather than to "fill a role."
- Simplicity and Frugality: Have just enough and no more. Constantly simplify. Always ask: "how could I accomplish what I'm trying to with 10x less money?
- Play for the name on the front of the jersey: "Play for the name on the front of the jersey...people will start remembering the name on the back." We all have individualistic desires but by working for the good of the company in the short term, you make yourself significantly better off in the long term. When in doubt of how to make a decision, ask: is this in the true, authentic best interest of Chef?
- Challenge your beliefs and aim to find truth: Assume your ideas are wrong and constantly stress test them. The default is that your idea is wrong and that you have to prove it’s right (not the other way around). Seek diverse perspectives. Always ask why, why, why? Break things down to the first principles and then build back up
- Take initiative and win: Figure out what needs to be done - without anyone telling you - and then win. We’re here to win not just for a job
Company HQ
Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rajat Bhageria
(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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