VP of Operations

Corvus Robotics, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Mountain View, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• 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.
• You will 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.

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About Corvus Robotics, Inc.

Corvus Robotics builds autonomous inventory drones for warehouses and distribution centers. Its Corvus One drone system navigates aisles using onboard cameras and AI, scanning barcodes and capturing images to provide real-time stock data without infrastructure changes. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company delivers cloud-based analytics dashboards that detect out-of-stock, misplaced, and low-inventory items, reducing manual cycle counts and improving operational efficiency for logistics and retail customers.

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