Commercial Prototype Manager

Posted:
11/19/2024, 7:03:40 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ Sunnyvale, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. 

The Commercial Prototype Manager will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining physical replica environments for commercial and retail applications. This includes managing suppliers, delivery dates, and a team of technicians to deliver many workcells for the robots to operate upon. 

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining all physical replicas of customer environments and retail environments within which the robot will operate 
    • Determines what materials are needed, how to get them, what timelines can be achieved, and how big of a supporting team is needed to execute
  • Must be able to replicate these environments with imperfect information and make them consistent across many workcells 
  • Responsible for building other materials that are customized to allow the robot to do certain use cases (i.e. a custom transportation rig if a customer hallway is especially narrow, etc)

Requirements: 

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Minimum of 7-10 years prototyping experience 
  • Ability to work with suppliers and timelines for materials 
  • Ability to fabricate both mechanical and electrical structures 
  • Ability to creatively design new physical structures to solve customer needs 

Bonus Qualifications: 

  • PLC, IT recreation experience 
  • Military experience

Figure

Website: https://www.figure.ai/

Headquarter Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Employee Count: 11-50

Year Founded: 2022

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown

Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI) ⋅ Machinery Manufacturing ⋅ Manufacturing ⋅ Robotics