Job Description

The EVP of Logistics Hardware Engineering will serve as the executive hardware development leader for Telexistence's logistics robotics product line, owning the full lifecycle from requirements definition and development through to customer delivery — across multiple concurrent projects. This role carries responsibility for driving cost reduction and functional improvement of our deployed depalletizing systems, as well as overseeing hardware development for new logistics robot systems currently entering development.

We are looking for a leader who can sustain the rapid development cycles of a startup environment while simultaneously achieving both lower manufacturing costs and higher product reliability. The hardware portfolio spans our next-generation manipulators already in deployment to AGVs such as autonomous forklifts. This is a critical senior position requiring direct collaboration with C-suite executives and fellow EVPs, encompassing both technical decision-making authority and full team leadership responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Leadership — Oversee end-to-end hardware development across all logistics programs. Partner with each product's VP to direct and manage teams across mechanical design, electrical design, and firmware development — including progress tracking, risk management, and ensuring committed milestones are met.
• Hardware Architecture & Technical Decision-Making — Define and own optimal hardware architecture decisions that ensure each product meets its business requirements across functionality, reliability, and cost targets.
  
  
• People & Budget Management — Partner with VPs to lead team people management across hiring and retention, and exercise control over headcount costs and development budgets.
  
  
• Manufacturing & Cross-Functional Alignment — Collaborate with Manufacturing, Procurement, and QA/QC teams to establish scalable, sustainable mass-production and sourcing frameworks, and to build development processes that ensure all hardware meets applicable safety standards.

Required Qualifications

Technical

• Proven experience in hardware architecture design for robotic systems

• Track record of developing and bringing to market hardware systems with multiple actuators, such as robot manipulators or equivalent complex mechanisms

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in mechanical design

• End-to-end experience from conceptual design through mass-production design

• Solid working knowledge across the following technical domains of actuator systems:

• Motor control systems and pneumatics fundamentals

• Sensor feedback control basics

• Structural and durability design for mechanical systems

• Practical experience or management experience in electrical design and firmware development

• Design-for-manufacturing (DFM) experience for mass production and market introduction, including cost optimization through design

Leadership & Management

• Demonstrated experience managing development teams of 10 or more engineers, with verifiable evidence of:

• Cross-team progress management and problem-solving

• Technical judgment-driven decision-making

• Development budget planning and management

• Proven track record of bringing products to market with both speed and high reliability

• Professional proficiency in both English and Japanese

Preferred Qualifications

• Development management experience at a startup

• Hardware development experience with manipulator-equipped logistics or industrial robots

• Track record in product cost-reduction initiatives — particularly through in-house component development or internalization strategies