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Mountain View, California, United States
Onsite
We are looking for a highly skilled and strategic VP of Operations to join our fast-paced, mission-driven team. You will be instrumental in scaling Corvus by owning manufacturing, supply chain, and hardware operations end-to-end as we deploy autonomous drones across the world's largest warehouses. We need a leader who has lived and breathed hardware - electronics, robotics, and production at scale - and is committed to building an operations engine that matches the ambition of our product.
Corvus Robotics builds fully autonomous, infrastructure-free drones that give Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises real-time inventory visibility inside their warehouses and distribution centers. Founded out of MIT and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, our systems are purpose-built in America and deployed through a Robots-as-a-Service model. Hardware quality, manufacturing reliability, and deployment logistics are core to our business.
Own end-to-end hardware operations: supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
Scale our production processes without sacrificing quality or reliability.
Build and manage relationships with contract manufacturers, component suppliers, and logistics partners.
Increase manufacturing velocity while navigating component sourcing, lead times, and supply chain risk.
Establish quality systems, testing protocols, and reliability standards for robots that operate 24/7 in active industrial environments.
Partner closely with engineering on DFM (design for manufacturability), NPI (new product introduction), and hardware revision cycles
Build and lead the operations team as we grow
Own operational metrics: unit economics, yield, on-time deployment, and hardware uptime.
5+ years of operations experience in hardware, with significant time in robotics, electronics, or complex electromechanical products.
Hands-on familiarity with electronics manufacturing - you must know the difference between a PCB and a machined part, and dealt with the suppliers who make them.
Proven track record scaling production of a hardware product.
Experience managing contract manufacturers and multi-tier supply chains, ideally including overseas and domestic production.
Fluency in the language of hardware: BOMs, EVT/DVT/PVT, yield, MTBF, ECOs, and factory ramps.
Strong first-principles thinker who is comfortable operating with ambiguity at a fast-moving startup.
Willingness to be hands-on - on the factory floor, at supplier sites, and in customer warehouses when needed.
Experience with drones, UAVs, or autonomous mobile robots.
Experience with Robots-as-a-Service or other hardware-enabled recurring revenue models.
Background in regulated or safety-critical hardware environments.
Experience deploying hardware fleets into industrial or logistics environments.
You'll join a team solving some of the hardest problems in physical AI - autonomy, reliability, and real-world deployment at national scale - with a product already trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises across retail, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution. This is a rare opportunity to own the operational backbone of a category-defining robotics company at the inflection point of its growth.
