Production Manager

Lightberry; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Lightberry designs the production systems that make their robot parts repeatable, inspectable, and ready to install in the US and abroad. You will lead production planning, ensure quality at every gate, and work across engineering, suppliers, and logistics to keep parts moving smoothly.

We value hands-on problem solving, strong supplier management, and the ability to align manufacturing with design for manufacturing.

Qualificações

• Experience manufacturing physical parts or assemblies from plan through delivery.
• Ability translate engineering requirements into inspections, tests, and acceptance criteria.
• On-the-floor problem solving: debugging, improving processes with the team.
• Experience setting clear expectations with suppliers and maintaining relationships.
• Systems mindset to build simple production controls for visibility.
• Mandarin Chinese language ability to work with Chinese suppliers.
• Background in robotics hardware or assemblies for robots or related products.
• Collaboration with engineers to simplify assembly, inspection, service, and scale-up via DFM.

Responsabilidades

• Plan production with engineering and suppliers, including quantities, schedules, materials, and readiness gates.
• Set up incoming inspections, in-process quality checks, and clear acceptance criteria for every part.
• Design end-of-line tests, fixtures, checklists, and traceability to catch defects before shipment.
• Develop packaging and transport methods that protect parts through storage, handling, and delivery.
• Manage supplier performance across quality, yield, lead time, cost, and rework.
• Help build and improve Lightberry’s supply chain in the US.
• Coordinate interfaces and delivery schedules with robot chassis suppliers in China.

Conhecimentos

Production management

Quality control

Supplier management

Hands-on

Systems thinking

Mandarin Chinese

Robotics parts

DFM

Descrição da vaga

Lightberry builds the software layer for expressive, interactive robots. We combine voice AI, perception, and behavior systems so robots can understand people and respond naturally.

We are a small, hands-on team based in San Francisco, working across software, hardware, design, and research to turn new capabilities into robots people can interact with today.

We care about thoughtful craft, fast iteration, and shipping real systems into the world.

Robots with Souls

Yep, you read that right.

Robots are here, but they ship with no software. They’re all mute, deaf, and blind out of the box. The only way to get the robot to do anything is to write code. This is insane.

We want robots to behave like in the movies: proactive, caring, aware.

The role

Lightberry designs the parts that give robots their character. You’ll build the production system that makes those parts repeatable, inspectable, and ready to install.

You’ll work across suppliers, engineering, quality, packaging, and transport. You’ll help strengthen our US supply chain while making sure our parts integrate cleanly with robot chassis developed by companies in China.

What you’ll do

• Plan production with engineering and suppliers, including quantities, schedules, materials, and readiness gates.
• Set up incoming inspections, in-process quality checks, and clear acceptance criteria for every part.
• Design end-of-line tests, fixtures, checklists, and traceability so defects are caught before shipment.
• Develop packaging and transport methods that protect parts through storage, handling, and delivery.
• Manage supplier performance across quality, yield, lead time, cost, and rework.
• Help build and improve Lightberry’s supply chain in the US.
• Coordinate interfaces and delivery schedules with robot chassis suppliers in China.

What’s needed

We don’t care about a particular degree or industry pedigree. Show us production systems you’ve made more reliable. We do need:

• Production. You’ve managed the manufacture of physical parts or assemblies from plan through delivery.
• Quality. You can turn an engineering requirement into an inspection, test, acceptance limit, and record.
• Hands-on. You’re comfortable on the floor checking parts, debugging failures, and improving the process with the people doing the work.
• Suppliers. You set clear expectations, surface risks early, and hold vendors accountable without damaging the relationship.
• Systems. You build simple production controls that make quality and status visible.
• 中文. You speak Chinese and can work directly with robot chassis suppliers in China.
• Robotics. You’ve built parts or assemblies for robots, vehicles, or other complex electromechanical products.
• Design for manufacturing. You can work with engineers to simplify assembly, inspection, service, and scale-up.

One last thing…

• You can’t stand chaos
• You’d work remotely every day if you could
• You’re not a people-person
• You’re pessimistic about tech, AI, and the future
• You want to do your life’s work
• You care about developing and expressing your craft
• You love intense, fast-paced environments
• Life’s short, why work on B2B AI SAAS infra slop when you could work on speaking robots?