Director Of Robotics

Napster | Product | Remote (US) | Director

Napster builds life-like AI agents that meet your customers wherever they are and work alongside your employees as coworkers. Our agents live in a consumer app, on any website, inside the tools people use at work, and in person, on hardware we design and ship.

We are hiring a Director of Robotics to bring Napster's agents into the physical world on mobile robotic platforms. You will lead the robotics program end to end: platform, partners, integration, safety and the first deployments with customers. You will build a small team and work closely with Product and Engineering.

This is a builder's seat. You will choose the platform, make the hard tradeoffs, and ship.

• Build the robot: platform, mechanics, electronics, software and the partners who make it, with your own hands on the hardware.
• Select the mobile-robot platform, own that vendor relationship, and choose the robotics software stack you build on.
• Own the safety case and certification for service robots operating in public spaces, including accessibility.
• Work with our hardware production team on manufacturing, tooling and unit cost.
• Run the first customer deployments, instrument them, and turn what we learn into the production spec and the deployment playbook.
• Connect the robots to Napster Fleet for monitoring, remote assistance and updates.
• Hire and lead a small robotics team across mechatronics, embedded and controls, and field engineering.

• Shipped at least one robot into a public or customer-facing space, from prototype through certification to deployment.
• Hands-on experience building on a production edge-AI compute and robotics software stack, plus simulation-based testing (Gazebo, Mu Jo Co  or similar) and Robot Operating System 2 fluency.
• Deep systems integration across mechanical, electrical, embedded and software, with your own hands on the hardware.
• Direct experience with service-robot safety standards and certification, and with contract manufacturers.
• A record of moving fast: you have taken a concept to a working robot in months, and you know which corners can be cut and which cannot.
• Comfort leading a small team and outside partners at the same time.

• Fleet operations for a deployed robot fleet.
• Mechanism design.
• Experience with silicon vendors' partner or reference-design programs
• A product sensibility: you care how it looks, how it sounds and how it makes a customer feel.

Remote within the US, with travel to partners and customer sites. Director-level, reporting into Product.

Napster embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We strive to build a company that reflects a global audience.

Napster Corp embraces a diversity of backgrounds and experiences and provides equal opportunity for all applicants and employees. We strive to build a company that reflects a global audience.

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