Customer Development Lead at Infi Robotics

Pear VC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Infi Robotics is seeking a role focused on identifying suitable hardware partners and carrying programs from first conversations through accepted production output. You have run NPI, manufacturing, or supply chain at a hardware company or been the customer-facing engineer at an automation vendor or contract manufacturer.

You will join a team that works across robotics, ML, and factory floor initiatives, contributing to our first customer programs and helping shape the company’s direction and

Qualifications

• Experience in hardware-NPI and manufacturing environments.
• Experience driving discovery, pilot scoping, quoting, and handoff to production.
• Customer-facing engineering experience in automation or contract manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Identify target hardware companies for assembly partnerships.
• Lead programs from initial conversations to confirmed production output.
• Scope pilots with clear acceptance criteria and quotes.
• Maintain strong customer communication through production ramp-up.

Skills

NPI experience

Manufacturing experience

Supply chain experience

Customer-facing engineer

Job description

About Infi Robotics

Infi's mission is to build a general-purpose fully autonomous factory to unlock physical abundance and reindustrialize America.

We are a robotics-native contract manufacturer helping hardware companies take their products from prototype to production at our factory in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our initial focus is automated assembly for robots, drones, and other intelligent hardware.

The role

Identify the hardware companies whose assembly we should take on and carry each program from first conversation to accepted production output. This includes discovery, pilot scoping with clear acceptance criteria, quoting, and customer contact through acceptance. You have run NPI, manufacturing, or supply chain at a hardware company, or been the customer-facing engineer at an automation vendor or contract manufacturer.

Join us

At Infi, you'll own foundational projects across robotics, ML, the factory floor, and our first customer programs, and help shape the company’s direction and pace.

Learn more at infirobotics.com.