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title: 'Event Coordinator at Foundry Robotics Inc.'
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# Event Coordinator at Foundry Robotics Inc.

- **Company:** Foundry Robotics Inc.
- **Location:** Emeryville, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/foundry-robotics/547fec83-971f-4120-875c-596300ba09f0

## Job description

## About Us

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we're building robots that build robots.

We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality. As a senior leader on our manufacturing team, you will have a direct and significant impact on our product, culture, and ultimate success. This role is 100% in-person at our office in Emeryville, CA.

## The Role

Our conferences and events are currently run by whoever has capacity. That has worked, and it has cost us: no one owns the calendar, no one owns the booth, and no one can say what any of it returned. This role takes all of it. You will own the event program end to end — which shows we attend, what we bring, who we meet, and what came of it. You will run the logistics yourself, and you will be the person who can answer "was that show worth it?" with numbers rather than impressions. This is a junior role with real surface area. When the event calendar is quiet, you will spend your time on social and content alongside our Social Media & Brand Voice Lead. This is an on-site role in Emeryville. Events also mean travel flexibility.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own the calendar. Build and maintain the annual event plan — trade shows, conferences, customer dinners, recruiting events. Make the case for each one before we commit, not after.
- Own the environment. Plan and create the booth design, the giveaways and the experience visitors have and the impression they leave with of the Foundry brand, product and company.
- Run the events. Manage all aspects of the event from end to end and assign roles as needed (and available). Own the booth build and stocking, shipping and logistics, badges, hotels, travel, collateral, demo hardware, on-site setup and teardown. You are the one who knows where the crate is.
- Own the numbers. Define what a show is supposed to return before we go. Track spend, leads captured, meetings booked, pipeline influenced. Publish a readout within a week of every event, including the ones that did not work.
- Run the follow-up. Get leads out of the badge scanner and into the hands of the people who can act on them, with context, within 48 hours.
- Prep the team. Brief whoever is staffing the booth — talk track, target accounts, who to find, what to say. Make sure engineers who have never worked a show know what good looks like.
- Support social and content. Capture the shop floor and the show floor: photos, video, short posts. Draft and schedule content, and keep the content calendar honest.
- Manage vendors and budget. Contracts, deadlines, invoices, deposits. Keep the event budget current and flag overruns early.

## What We're Looking For

Founder mentality: We love people who build like it's their own company. You move fast, take ownership, and find a way through when the path isn't obvious. You have the drive to make big things happen and the judgment to take smart risks along the way. If you prefer a clearly defined lane, a predictable pace, and all the answers before you start, there's nothing wrong with that—but Foundry might not be the right fit.

- 1–3 years running events, field marketing. Conference, agency, hospitality, or ops backgrounds all count.
- Evidence you have shipped something physical to a deadline and had it arrive working.
- Comfort with a spreadsheet: budgets, lead counts, cost per meeting. You should want to know the number, not be handed it.
- Clear, quick writing. Booth copy, a one-pager, a follow-up email, a post.
- Willingness to travel and to work the long day that a show floor actually is.
- A bias toward doing it yourself. We are small; there is no events team behind you yet.

## Nice to Have

- Experience at a hardware, robotics, manufacturing, or defense company.
- Having run a booth at a large industrial or defense trade show.
- CRM fluency (HubSpot, Salesforce) and lead routing.
- Photo, video, or social editing skills.

We care more about what you have run than where you ran it. If you have organized something ambitious outside of a job, tell us about it.

Why Join Us? This is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing operators, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room — building production systems together. We are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again. If you want to run a mature, well-defined commercial org, this may not be the role. If you want to build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America — this is it. The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Emeryville, CA is: $90,000—$150,000 USD Compensation packages at Foundry Robotics for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Foundry Robotics employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, and generous PTO.

Foundry Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

## About Foundry Robotics Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Foundry Robotics is an AI-first, assembly-focused robotics company rebuilding American manufacturing with advanced automation and production systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2026
- **Founders**: Adarsh Kulkarni

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Robotics Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Defense & Dual-Use Contract Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily defense contractors, hardware startups, and industrial companies needing flexible, small-to-medium scale assembly
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "AI-first, assembly-focused robotics that rebuilds American manufacturing—faster, more flexible, and ready for what’s next."

## Products & Services
- **Battery Pack Assembly**: Small to medium-scale battery pack assembly that streamlines the path from prototype to full-scale production, enabling faster iteration and secure domestic manufacturing.
- **Advanced Hardware Sub-Assemblies**: Rapid construction of complex mechanical assemblies for next-generation and legacy hardware using AI-driven robotic cells, eliminating the need for bespoke factories.
- **Defense & Dual-Use Robotics**: Modular robotic cells for defense and dual-use applications that enable rapid assembly of critical infrastructure through secure and resilient American supply chains.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $19M in seed funding (announced April 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Red Glass Ventures, Zero Shot Fund
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown from 14 employees to over 20 builders in a short period, with a monthly headcount growth rate of +26.7%. It opened its San Francisco HQ in May 2026, just 21 days after the space was still being opened with a sledgehammer. Website traffic is growing +128.4% month-over-month.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first, assembly-focused approach**: Unlike traditional contract manufacturers that require bespoke factories, Foundry uses modular, AI-driven robotic cells that can be rapidly reconfigured for different products.
- **Dual-use capability**: Serving both defense and commercial applications, which opens up a large addressable market and provides mission-driven work.
- **Speed of iteration**: The company can go from prototype to full-scale production faster than traditional manufacturers, as demonstrated by opening its HQ in under a month.
- **Team pedigree**: The founding team includes talent from Tesla, Blue Origin, Scale AI, Google DeepMind, and the UPenn GRASP Lab.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the engineering and manufacturing platform**: The company is actively hiring across robotics, AI, software, operations, and quality engineering roles to scale its platform.
- **Rebuilding American manufacturing**: Foundry is focused on creating a domestic, secure, and resilient supply chain for critical infrastructure, particularly for defense and dual-use applications.
- **Rapid iteration and deployment**: The company prioritizes speed, moving from concept to production floor in weeks, not years.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to rebuilding American manufacturing and strengthening national security through advanced robotics.
- **High-caliber team**: The team includes builders from Tesla, Blue Origin, Scale AI, Google DeepMind, and the UPenn GRASP Lab, offering a steep learning curve and exposure to cutting-edge technology.
- **Hybrid workspace**: The company operates a hybrid model with a strong in-office presence at its San Francisco HQ, which includes a factory floor where robots are built and deployed.
- **Early-stage impact**: As a seed-stage company, employees have significant ownership and influence over the product, culture, and direction of the company.
- **Rapid growth environment**: With a 26.7% monthly headcount growth rate and a focus on scaling, the company offers fast-paced career growth opportunities.

## Sources
1. [foundryrobotics.ai](https://foundryrobotics.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Foundry Robotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundry-robotics)
3. [Built In - Foundry Robotics](https://builtin.com/company/foundry-robotics)
4. [Remix Reality - Foundry Robotics Raises $19 Million](https://www.remixreality.com/foundry-robotics-raises-19-million-to-build-ai-first-robotics-for-manufacturing/)
5. [Ashby - Foundry Robotics Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/foundry-robotics)

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