Anvil Robotics - Head of Robot Hardware

• You've designed physical hardware that went from a concept to something manufactured at real volume — you understand materials, actuation, and subassembly design well enough to make the calls yourself, not hand them off. • You think about manufacturability and mass production from the first sketch: tolerance stacks, vendor capability, assembly sequencing, and what breaks when you go from one unit to a hundred. • You don't need to be an expert in PCB design, motors, reliability testing, or structural engineering, but you can think laterally across all of them — enough to know when something's wrong, ask the right question, and make a defensible call at the boundary between mechanical and everything else. • You have genuine, provable depth in at least one or two of PCB/electronics design, actuation and motor systems, reliability engineering and accelerated life testing, or structural and materials engineering — beyond just being conversant in it. • You're comfortable driving technical direction across engineers and vendors you don't formally manage, earning the "lead" in your title through judgment rather than authority. • You default to a design that can actually be built and shipped, not the most elegant one on paper. • You don't need to relocate — this role can be remote. But hardware gets real in person, and you'll travel to Taipei for the on-sites that anchor each program: major project kickoffs, initial system bring-up, and first production batches. We run those deliberately — they're what lets the rest of the work be remote. • Bachelor's or Master's in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, or a related field. A PhD is not required — this is a build it and ship it role, not a research role. • Years matter less to us than trajectory. A typical req for a role like this might ask for 8–10+ years and prior "Head of Hardware" experience; we're looking for someone with 4–6 unusually fast growing years spent as the strong #2 to a senior hardware leader on a real, shipped robotics or hardware product — someone who watched how the materials, actuation, and manufacturability calls actually got made, made a growing share of them personally, but never had the whole program handed to them. This is that handoff. • What this role is not: • Not a people management role. There are no direct reports today, and building a management org is not the mandate — this is a hands on technical ownership role. • Not a role where you personally design the PCBs, tune every motor controller, or write the perception stack. Those are owned by specialist engineers; your job is system level judgment and integration across their work, plus genuine depth in one or two of those areas. • Not a role for someone who's only ever designed hardware that stayed a prototype. If you've never taken something through a real manufacturing ramp, this isn't the right seat yet. • Not a role with an existing DFM/manufacturing playbook to inherit for the new robot — where it doesn't exist, you're building it.