Director NPI & Industrialization

Your Responsibilities

Product Architecture & Development

• Own the system design of the robotic cell across mechanical, electrical and controls integration, including robot arm integration, vision and sensor integration, cabinet, wiring and machine safety

• Lead development of our adaptive force-controlled gripper and end-effectors, which are core IP for Sereact

• Take each product from working prototype through DVT and qualification to a frozen, released design

• Work with the Cortex software team on hardware and software interfaces and trade-offs

Industrialization & Design Transfer

• Build design for manufacture, assembly, service and cost into every product from the start

• Set up and run a Design-Transfer Gate with Supply Chain, so every product handed to a contract manufacturer arrives as a complete, buildable package

• Design critical parts to be standardized and second-sourceable

Reliability, Quality & Documentation

• Install reliability engineering practice, including DVT, HALT, FMEA and tolerance and worst-case analysis

• Run a root-cause loop on field failures with Technical Support and drive design-related returns down

• Set up PLM, BOMs, drawings, specifications, configuration management and ECN/ECO discipline so every revision is documented and reproducible

Roadmap, Cost & Team

• Own the hardware roadmap, including the next-generation cell and the split between bespoke builds and a standardized product line

• Run design-to-cost programs and bring BOM cost per unit down over time

• Hire and lead the hardware and mechatronics engineering team and set its working cadence and accountability

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• 10+ years in hardware, mechatronics or electromechanical product engineering, including several years leading engineering teams

• A track record of personally taking a complex electromechanical product from prototype through design freeze into series production at hundreds of units per year

• Experience building a hardware engineering or industrialization function from scratch in a scaleup or growth-stage company

• Degree in mechanical, electrical or mechatronics engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Skills

• Hands-on depth across mechanical, electrical and controls integration

• Strong command of DfX (DfM, DfA, design for service and cost)

• Reliability engineering experience with DVT, HALT and FMEA

• Experience setting up PLM, configuration management and change control

• Direct experience handing a released design to a contract manufacturer or EMS partner and supporting the first builds

• Fluent English and willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites

Additional Skills / Nice to Have

• Robotics or manipulation experience, such as grippers, end-effectors, force control, robot arm integration or machine vision

• Machine safety experience, including CE marking, the Machinery Directive and functional safety

• Experience integrating hardware with an AI or software stack

• Experience turning demos and pilots into repeatable production products

• German fluency

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing Series B robotics company

• Flexible PTO and a collaborative, high-ownership culture

• Ownership of the hardware product and the team that builds it as we scale to hundreds of units a year