Head of Hardware: Lead Scalable Robotic Systems

Andromeda; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Andromeda Robotics seeks a Head of Hardware to lead the hardware organization, steering architecture, and a production-scale transition for Abi. You’ll supervise mechanical, electrical, systems, reliability, quality, and manufacturing engineering, while coordinating with external partners.

You’ll shape the external partner strategy, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and drive rigorous trade-offs across performance, cost, and schedule to ensure robust hardware systems in real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in robotics or other complex electromechanical products such as drones, automotive, or similar motion-based systems.
• Experience leading a hardware program from architecture through prototype, validation, and scale manufacturing in a startup or fast-moving environment.
• Experience working with JDM, ODM, and CM partners through design, ramp, and production.
• Experience working with supply chain to select key suppliers and components with strong judgment across cost, reliability, lead time, and manufacturability.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving field reliability, quality, and performance issues in shipped hardware systems.
• Strong leadership capability, including setting direction, building high-performing teams, driving accountability, and developing other leaders.
• Strong technical judgment in complex mechatronic systems, with the ability to guide architecture, make pragmatic trade-offs, and operate effectively under ambiguity.
• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, including comfort representing the hardware function with executives, partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardware strategy, roadmap, and execution required to take Abi versions from prototype to scalable manufacturing.
• Lead day-to-day performance across mechanical, electrical, systems, reliability, quality, manufacturing engineering, and external hardware partners.
• Make key technical and program trade-offs across performance, cost, schedule, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Manage cadence, decision-making quality, and cross-functional alignment for hardware, software, AI, design, safety, supply chain, and manufacturing.
• Own and evolve the external partner strategy with design and manufacturing partners (CM/ODM/JDM) during design, validation, ramp, and production.
• Build and lead a strong multidisciplinary hardware team with clear expectations, coaching, and operating rhythm.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, AI, design, safety, reliability, supply chain, manufacturing, finance, and commercial teams.
• Ensure prototyping, validation, test fixture development, and issue resolution across the hardware lifecycle.
• Represent the hardware organisation with executives and stakeholders with clear judgment and crisp communication.

Skills

Robotics leadership

Hardware program management

Partner management

Supply chain awareness

Field reliability

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Mechatronics judgment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Physics or related field

Job description

Andromeda Robotics seeks a Head of Hardware to lead the hardware organization, steering architecture, and a production-scale transition for Abi. You’ll supervise mechanical, electrical, systems, reliability, quality, and manufacturing engineering, while coordinating with external partners.

You’ll shape the external partner strategy, guide multi-disciplinary teams, and drive rigorous trade-offs across performance, cost, and schedule to ensure robust hardware systems in real-world deployments.