Director of Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Hiring:
Director of Manufacturing & Supply Chain

At Cargo, we’re backed by some of the best robotics investors in the Valley to transform a massive legacy industry and we’re more than doubling our engineering team to satisfy overwhelming customer demand.

Cargo Robotics is creating the logistics infrastructure of the next 100 years by automating the entire delivery chain with containerized physical AI, starting at the delivery van.

After taking jobs at UPS and Fed Ex, our founders realized that a new approach was needed. Delivery volumes have exploded 5x in the past decade, and the people and processes of parcel logistics are breaking under the load of trying to deliver this volume with a 1950’s network model. Today’s logistics has rampant injuries and attrition, nonstop errors and delays, and delivery drivers spending more time sorting packages than delivering.

Our first product is the X1 Robotic Cargo Bay which reimagines the guts of every delivery van you see on the road, and saves hours of labor per day for each vehicle. This is the first step in fully automating the delivery chain with radically more efficient networks that reduce carbon emissions and congestion to enable a more prosperous and healthy future.

We’re looking for an unstoppable and highly practical supply chain and manufacturing leader to help us turn X1 from a small number of prototypes into 10’s, 100’s, and eventually 1000’s of deployed systems. You’ll work directly with the founders and hardware team to shape product architecture, build the supplier and manufacturing engine, and enable us to dramatically accelerate production ramp up.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You should be equally comfortable walking a factory floor in Asia, pushing engineering on DFM/DFA tradeoffs, negotiating with a critical supplier, building lightweight inventory and purchasing workflows, and jumping into a production or field issue when that is what it takes to keep Cargo moving.

We’re a user and product‑centric company, so expect to deliver some actual parcels in your first week at work!

Get ready, there’s lots to build :)

• Architect and be the chief builder of the supply chain and manufacturing engine that takes X1 from prototypes to 10’s, 100’s, and 1000’s of units operating continuously with customers
• Source, qualify, and manage world‑class suppliers and contract manufacturers for key mechanical, electrical, motion‑control, sensing, and assembly systems
• Work tightly with engineering to guide design decisions that materially affect manufacturability, cost, supplier availability, reliability, and time to scale
• Lead DFM/DFA, supplier feedback loops, production documentation, assembly planning, quality plans, and pilot builds as we transition from prototype to scaled manufacturing
• Establish the systems we need to scale: BOM and revision control, RFQs and purchasing workflows, inventory tracking, supplier scorecards, inspection criteria, and production planning
• Build a resilient supply base, especially in Asia, that avoids single‑source risk, long‑lead surprises, tariff/geopolitical issues, festival delays, etc.
• Drive manufacturing quality so problems are caught at the supplier or factory, not after parts arrive in the US
• Own cost reduction and manufacturing refinement as X1 scales, helping us hit aggressive COGS, assembly cost, quality, and delivery targets
• Directly support customer deployments, field issues, packaging, installation workflows, and reverse logistics where supply chain or manufacturing choices affect system reliability
• Help recruit, manage, and mentor the supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and operations teammates we need as we grow

• Biased toward action: take initiative and get stuff done
• Driven and gritty: can take punches and keep on going
• A quick study: learn fast and teach those around you
• Calm in chaos: keep your composure and work through the hurricane
• Self‑aware and low ego: take and give feedback with grace

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, NPI, operations, or hardware productization, with significant experience scaling complex…