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VP of Industrial Engineering
Humanoid · London · Reports to CTO
About Humanoid
Humanoid, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. We're building the first commercially deployed humanoid robots for industrial environments.
Our HMND-01 Alpha platform is rapidly developed and ready for real industrial pilots. Beyond industry-leading results in testing, we’ve grown the team to accelerate the development further.
Our industrial robot edition Schaeffler, Bosch, Siemens and more continue operations. Publicly named customer projects—our first beta fleet ships in 2026 with production scaling each subsequent year.
Humanoid's engineering leadership stems from trailblazing teams at Boston Dynamics, Amazon Robotics, Brain Corp, Sanctuary AI, Yandex Self-Driving, Nebius, Cloudflare, and Google. With combined deployment experience of hundreds of thousands of robots across Europe, the US, and Canada—collectively Canada—we are well-supported and have significant runway. Offices are based in London (HQ), Vancouver, Boston, and San Diego.
Why This Bet
Most humanoid projects focus on fully general-purpose bipeds with five-fingered hands. But the team chose a targeted approach informed by real-world customer needs. Our strategy is practical:
We aim to deploy wheeled, innovative robots in industrial settings that solve real-time challenges today. This generalized hardware combined with AI-driven learning ensures swift deployment cycles. Customers, accustomed to multi-quarter delays, notice significant differentiation when our robots land in days to weeks. Our tactic results in insurmountable integration cycles, typically the industry norm.
Our Approach to AI
The AI components function as our competitive long-term platform. We aggressively push the frontier of modern robot learning. Key areas of focus:
- Fleet learning
- Embodied agents
- Foundation models for autonomy
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The Role
The VP of Industrial Engineering serves as the single owner across hardware, software, AI, and integration. Responsibilities include:
- Ensuring the final product aligns precisely with the needs and expectations of customers.
- Coordination over precedence — hardware, software, AI, and system integration.
- Leadership and prioritization over all industrial project phases, from design to scaling.
It’s less about silos and more about the engagement with engineering peers, homeworkover leading prioritization across hardware, software, AI, and test teams. Think of it as a technical General Manager- industrial, coordinating what, when, and how by partnering with functional leaders.
This key position reports directly to the CTO of Humanoid.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end engineering delivery: From design, through pilots, and full-scale commercial deployment.
- Direct-industrial project prioritization: For engineers matrixed under the company's expanded functions including Industrial, systems, home spaces.
- Ensure total industrial engineering delivery onboard customers, product and commercial: Becoming the definitive voice for the CEO, commercial team, product, and customer strategy alignment.
- Build a robust delivery engine: Release production-grade completions through a structured cadence. Enable scalable improvements to enhance the product's lifecycle.
What You Bring
Key Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership encompassing shipping products at scale across multi-disciplinary platforms (hardware, software, AI).
- Software-centric mindset: Using technical expertise and leadership to manage software and AI implementations at scale, ensuring heavy deployment and fleet learning capabilities can drive constant refined innovation.
- Industrial market understanding: Strong familiarity with industrial hardware insights especially in logistics, manufacturing, automotive, and related verticals. UK or EU industrial experience is superlative; US deployment maturity equally valuable.
- Leadership through influence: Unmatched track record in collaborating cross-functionally across diverse engineering and technical teams, irrespective of hierarchy.
- Innovative problem-solving: Exceptional history in transforming products from the drawing stage to high-value customer solutions. Product pioneers adore your ability to unlock pain points to create value.
- Technical credibility: Across a breadth of hardware, software, and modern AI capabilities sufficient to engage substantively at all levels.
- Dispersed team expertise: Managing successful operations at a distributed environment (across London, Boston, Vancouver and San Diego).
- Agile start-up energy: Comfortable within the realms of a rapidly growing company transitioning from prototype to production stage, while balancing simultaneous growth and raising expectations.
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What Success Looks Like Within 12 Months
- Smooth progression from pilot phases to full-scale deployments at strategic customer bases.
- Sous-trusting reliability: Industrial robots display reliable quotidian performance and meet scheduled standard operating procedures with accuracy.
- Unified quality outcome: Harmonized harmony across hardware, software, and AI advances assure best-in-class quality standards, always overcoming at all fronts.
Location: London. Critical participation and engagement across engineering, operational teams, and product development design processes to guarantee collaboration.
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