Chef Robotics brings intelligent, adaptable automation to food manufacturers. Scale meal assembly with robots built for the real world. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
If you’re excited about solving hard problems, creating real customer impact, and shipping systems that operate in production every day, not just in the lab, you’ll feel at home at Chef.
What they're looking for
- Demonstrated experience shipping a complete autonomy or manipulation system to real-world deployment — not just simulation or research prototypes
- Deep technical expertise across at least two of: perception systems, visuomotor control, action prediction, sensor fusion, or motion planning
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and C++, experience building production-quality, maintainable systems across research and deployment codebases
- Track record of technical leadership: driving architecture decisions, leading cross-functional projects, and raising the engineering bar on a team
- Comfort with ambiguity and urgency — able to set direction and execute in a fast-moving startup environment
More about this role
Chef Robotics is bringing AI into the physical world, starting with one of the world’s largest industries: food manufacturing.
Food production faces one of the most severe labor shortages in the US, with more than 1 million open jobs today and demand continuing to grow. Our robots help manufacturers automate repetitive food-preparation and assembly tasks so they can increase throughput, improve consistency, and keep production onshore.
Today, Chef robots operate in production facilities across North America and Europe, serving customers including Amy’s Kitchen, gategroup, and CookUnity. Our robots have made over 100 million servings in production, creating the world’s largest proprietary dataset for AI-powered manipulation of deformable food. Every meal our robots produce makes the system smarter.
Backed by leading investors including Avataar Ventures, Construct Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Promus Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins, we’re scaling rapidly with a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model and long-term customer partnerships. Our team includes engineers and leaders from Google, Cruise, Tesla, Amazon Robotics, Dexterity, Bear Robotics, Saildrone, and Zoox, united by a mission to build...
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