Robot Production Manager

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Weave is building practical, delightful robots and is expanding its assembly and manufacturing teams. You’ll lead the floor that builds our robots, coordinating machining, wire harness fabrication, subassemblies, final assembly, and test to keep schedules and quality high.

You’ll partner with engineering to feed shop learnings back into design. You’ll run weekly production planning, coach technicians, develop processes, and report performance metrics while fostering craftsmanship and continuous

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading assembly, manufacturing, or production teams.
• Strong understanding of mechanical assemblies, manufacturing documentation, bills of materials, and engineering drawings.
• Hands-on leadership on the production floor coaching technicians and solving problems.
• Ability to collaborate with mechanical, electrical, robotics, and manufacturing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the build schedule: plan weekly production, sequence work across stations, and hit delivery dates.
• Manage the production team day to day: coordinate machinists and assembly technicians, staffing, scheduling, and training.
• Develop assembly processes: establish and improve assembly procedures, work instructions, and quality checkpoints.
• Track and report production metrics: units per week, first pass yield, cycle time, rework and scrap trends.
• Maintain process discipline: ensure instructions followed, deviations documented, no undocumented workarounds.
• Inventory management: maintain supply of parts and plan around shortages.
• Own build quality: ensure robots meet quality standards through inspection and testing.
• Build the team: onboard new technicians and build training matrix.
• Bridge engineering and production: feed manufacturing insights back to engineering.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Technical aptitude

Hands-on leadership

Partner with engineering

Strong people leadership

Job description

At Weave we're building practical and delightful robots that benefit as many people as possible. We’re already publicly shipping some of the first bimanual robots you can buy, but we’ll be defined as a company by how quickly we can build and ship orders of magnitude more. To that end we’re now growing our assembly and manufacturing teams.

You’ll run the floor that builds our robots. Our production process spans machining, wire harness fabrication, actuator subassembly, final assembly, and end-of-line test, and your job is to make it run predictably: robots finished on schedule, built to spec, by a team that knows what good work looks like. You’ll work closely with engineering & design teams and own day-to-day execution so the manufacturing organization can keep improving the process while you deliver this week's builds.

Responsibilities

• Own the build schedule: plan weekly production, sequence work across stations, and hit delivery dates.
• Manage the production team day to day: Coordinate a team of machinists and assembly technicians: staffing, scheduling, training, and performance. Run daily standups and shift coordination, keeping every station socked, staffed and unblocked.
• Develop assembly processes: Establish and continuously improve assembly procedures, work instructions, quality checkpoints, and production workflows.
• Track and report production metrics: Units per week, First pass yield, cycle time per station, rework and scrap trends.
• Maintain process discipline: Work instructions followed, deviations documented and no undocumented workarounds in the shop.
• Inventory management: Maintaining supply of parts, planning around part shortages to avoid schedule impact.
• Own build quality: Ensure every robot meets Weave’s quality standards through robust inspection, testing, and process controls. Escalate quality issues to engineering and design teams.
• Build the team: Onboard new technicians and build the training matrix so every station has qualified operators.
• Build a craftsmanship culture: Foster a culture where attention to detail, ownership, and continuous improvement are core expectations.
• Bridge engineering and production: Ensure that every build teaches us something—feeding manufacturing insights back into engineering so every generation of robot is easier to build, more reliable, and higher quality.

What you’ll bring

• Manufacturing leadership: 3+ years leading assembly, manufacturing, or production teams building complex electromechanical products.
• Technical aptitude: Strong understanding of mechanical assemblies, manufacturing documentation, bills of materials, and engineering drawings.
• Hands-on leadership: Comfortable spending time on the production floor coaching technicians, solving problems, and improving processes alongside the team.
• Partner with engineering: Work closely with mechanical, electrical, robotics, and manufacturing engineers to improve manufacturability, assembly time, and product reliability.
• Strong people leadership with technician teams: hiring, training, coaching, and holding a bar for quality of work.

Nice to have

• Experience working with robotics, consumer electronics , medical devices , or other high-volume electromechanical products.
• Experience supporting contract manufacturers or overseas production.
• Hands on experience as a technician or machinist before moving into leadership.
• Familiarity with lean production methods applied at small scale.