Director NPI and Industrialization
Sereact is a Stuttgart-based physical-AI robotics company whose Cortex software enables autonomous warehouse and manufacturing operations across robot platforms.
Funding history
About Sereact
Sereact GmbH develops embodied-AI software for industrial robotics. Its Cortex system provides vision-language-action intelligence for tasks including robotic picking, returns handling, sorting, and warehouse inspection; the company also offers products such as Sereact Lens and its operational data platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own robotic-cell hardware from system architecture through design freeze and transfer to contract manufacturing. You will lead mechanical, electrical, controls, gripper, safety, reliability, documentation, cost, and roadmap work. You will also hire and lead hardware and mechatronics engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years in hardware, mechatronics, or electromechanical product engineering
- Several years leading engineering teams
- Experience taking complex electromechanical products from prototype through design freeze into series production
- Experience building a hardware engineering or industrialization function in a scaleup or growth-stage company
- Hands-on mechanical, electrical, and controls integration expertise
- Experience with DfX, reliability engineering, PLM, configuration management, and change control
- Experience transferring released designs to contract manufacturers or EMS partners
- Fluent English
- Willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites
Responsibilities
- Own robotic-cell system design across mechanical, electrical, controls, vision, sensor, wiring, and safety integration
- Lead development of adaptive force-controlled grippers and end-effectors
- Take products from prototype through DVT and qualification to released designs
- Build design for manufacture, assembly, service, and cost into products
- Run the Design-Transfer Gate with Supply Chain
- Install reliability engineering practices including DVT, HALT, FMEA, and tolerance analysis
- Drive root-cause analysis of field failures
- Establish PLM, BOM, drawing, specification, configuration-management, and change-control practices
- Own the hardware roadmap and design-to-cost programs
- Hire and lead hardware and mechatronics engineers
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible PTO