Meta
VP Robotics
$486K–$527K
Redmond, WA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Menlo Park, CA - Experience
- 15+ years of technical industry experience; 10+ years of management experience.
- Education
- Advanced degree in Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
About the job
Leads Meta Robotics Studio and delivers robotics products from architecture and design through development, manufacturing, and launch.
What you'll do
- Own the robotics roadmap, delivery plan, milestones, and shipped outcomes.
- Lead end-to-end product development and hardware productization, including manufacturing scale, quality, reliability, and cost.
- Build and lead cross-functional engineering, AI, software, manufacturing, and operations teams; align technical investment with product milestones.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of technical industry experience and 10+ years of management experience.
- Experience as a VP or C-level leader of an engineering organization at a company operating at scale.
- Experience shipping physical hardware products to customers at volume, owning delivery outcomes, and bringing a hardware category from concept to high-volume production.
- Experience leading hardware productization with supply chain, manufacturing, and contract manufacturers.
Nice to have
- Working familiarity with robot learning, including reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer, and manipulation.
- Experience with consumer product safety, regulatory certification, and reliability qualification for physical autonomous systems.
Pay
$486,000/year to $527,000/year USD base salary; bonus + equity (amount not stated)
Tools
reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer
AI focus
Directs embodied AI, machine learning, and systems work toward robotics product milestones; requires familiarity with modern robot learning and its product applications.
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