Engineering Leader - AI-Driven Industrial Automation

Formulate Robotics; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

High ownership and autonomy

Foundational technology for global制造

In-person collaboration

Job summary

Formulate Robotics is seeking a VP of Engineering in California to own the engineering execution for our platform that orchestrates Gen 3 hardware and its software. This senior leadership role requires building and guiding a world-class team across robotics, embedded controls, cloud software, and applied AI/ML.

You will set architecture standards, drive end-to-end integration, and partner with Product to translate customer needs into clear priorities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in engineering with 3+ years leading teams.
• Proven ability to ship cross-disciplinary hardware/software systems.
• Experience with AI/ML tooling and data-driven platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap and execution for Gen 3 hardware and the platform.
• Build and lead a high-performing team across robotics, controls, firmware, cloud software, and AI/ML.
• Set architecture and technical standards: reliability, safety, testability, observability, and maintainability.
• Drive end-to-end system integration: hardware-software interfaces, firmware, services, UI, data pipelines.
• Partner with Product to translate customer needs into priorities, milestones, and releases.
• Establish engineering cadence: planning, reviews, postmortems, retrospectives, continuous improvement.
• Design for manufacturability and deployment at scale: cost-down, serviceability, QA gates, and runbooks.
• Build feedback loop with instrumentation + data systems for platform learning.
• Own hiring and team design: org structure, leveling, onboarding, culture.
• Jump into complex problems and lead by example.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System architecture

Cross-disciplinary systems

AI/ML tooling

Hands-on leadership

Tools

Robotics platforms

Embedded firmware

Cloud platforms

Job description

Formulate Robotics is seeking a VP of Engineering in California to own the engineering execution for our platform that orchestrates Gen 3 hardware and its software. This senior leadership role requires building and guiding a world-class team across robotics, embedded controls, cloud software, and applied AI/ML.

You will set architecture standards, drive end-to-end integration, and partner with Product to translate customer needs into clear priorities.