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# Senior Manager, Manufacturing Engineering (Robot Production) at Genesis

- **Company:** Genesis
- **Location:** Bay Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis/3359106a-f6bf-4733-86d4-2a9af581b8ef

## Job description

## About Genesis

We are a full-stack general-purpose robot company, born across San Francisco and Paris and bound by a single mission: to make general-purpose robots a reality, unlocking infinite physical labor for the world and freeing people for creativity, exploration, and the pursuits they love for their own sake. We are French and American by birth and global by nature. We are backed by partners who share our vision, including Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, and HSG, alongside Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, and Vladlen Koltun. Our people work across the Bay Area and Europe, building the engine that will teach robots to do real work in the real world. We recently unveiled Eno, our wheeled, dexterous robot powered by our GENE foundation model, and we are starting to put it to work with real customers.

## The role

We build general-purpose robots, and next year we start building them in volume. You will be the manufacturing engineer who takes the robot from engineering builds to production. Our CA facility is where new products are introduced: the process is designed, the first stations are built and proven, and the technicians are trained there. Volume production runs with a manufacturing partner, on their floor or on ours with their people, and you own the process in both cases. You design how the robot gets built, you lead the engineers and technicians who prove it, and you own the quality gate that decides when a unit leaves. This is hands-on work. You design the first station, write the first work instruction, and bring the partner's team up to our standard. What exists today: an engineering build process with our design team, a production partner, a bill of materials and a plan. What does not exist yet is the production process, and that is the job.

## What you'll do

- Design the production process: layout and cycle time, line balancing, station and fixture design, end-of-line test and calibration, material flow.
- Capacity planning: stations, equipment, people and hours by build phase, from the first units to rate, and the plan to add capacity ahead of demand.
- Specify, source and commission fixtures, tooling and test equipment: requirements, RFQ with Supply Chain, acceptance at the vendor and on the floor.
- Own process documentation under revision control: work instructions with photos and video, PFMEA, control plans, inspection plans, SOPs; keep the manufacturing BOM aligned with the engineering BOM and run engineering changes through to the floor.
- Run the transfer from engineering builds to production: pilot builds, DFM and DFA feedback with the authority to push back, build readiness reviews at each phase gate, release to volume.
- Package the process so it can be copied: one documented set of stations, fixtures, test, instructions and training that a partner's floor can run to the same yield as ours.
- Build and lead the team: manufacturing engineers, test engineers and technicians; hiring pace, training and certification, trainer capacity, shift structure as volume grows.
- Own the quality gate: first-pass yield, defect capture, root cause (8D, SPC, DOE where it earns its keep), closed-loop feedback to engineering and suppliers; nothing ships that quality has not passed.
- Partner with Supply Chain on clear-to-build so no unit starts without a complete kit, and with the manufacturing partner so their team runs our process to our standard.
- Stand up the systems as we grow: traceability by serial, MES-lite at first, then the real thing; the weekly numbers (yield, hours per unit, cost per unit, downtime, schedule adherence) and the readout to leadership.

## What we're looking for

- You have taken a complex electromechanical product from prototype through pilot to volume and designed the process yourself, not inherited it. Robots, vehicles, drones, medical devices, industrial equipment all count.
- You have transferred a process to a contract manufacturer and held them to your standard.
- Strong manufacturing engineering foundation: time studies, line balancing, capacity planning, fixture and tooling design, test strategy, PFMEA and control plans, lean and continuous improvement; CAD and GD&T fluency.
- You have hired and trained technicians, written certification criteria, and know that trained people are the real constraint on throughput.
- You have run a quality gate and held it under schedule pressure.
- You are on the floor every day and rigorous in the data.
- 8 or more years in manufacturing engineering or production, with time in a mature organization so you know what good looks like at scale, and 3 or more years leading people.
- Bonus: actuators, gearboxes or precision assemblies; PLM, MES and ERP implementation; product safety certification processes.

Working conditions Production and lab environments; travel to partner sites, up to 25%.

## Why this role

You build the way our robots get built, from the first station to rate, and the process and the team that do it are yours.

## How we work

We are always looking for people who are driven to work on hard problems and want to shape what the world will look like in ten years. A few of the values that guide us:

- Limitless ambition. We hold ourselves to the highest bar in everything we build.
- Relentless urgency. Iterate faster, learn faster. Time is the denominator.
- Type-2 Fun. Take the work seriously, not yourself. Embrace the grind and find joy in the struggle.
- Radical transparency. Candid communication builds trust, and direct feedback drives growth.
- Multiculturalism. We come from across the world. Be curious. Meet people on their terms.
- Team over ego. Help others, share context, and win as a team.
- A joyful journey. We take pride in the craft.

## About Genesis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Genesis AI is a full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots with human-level dexterity and intelligence, powered by its own foundation model and hardware.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $105M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and London)
- **Founded**: 2024 (emerged from stealth in July 2025)
- **Founders**: Zhou Xian (CEO), Théophile Gervet (President & Co-founder), Yi-Ling Qiao (Co-founder), Tsun-Hsuan Wang (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / General-Purpose Robotics
- **Target customers**: Enterprises in manufacturing, laboratories, hospitals, and logistics; future expansion into homes.
- **Mission**: “Build the world’s most capable robots that unlock new possibilities for humans.”

## Products & Services
- **Eno (General-Purpose Robot)**: A full-body robot designed to operate reliably in factories, labs, hospitals, and homes. Driven by the GENE foundation model, it features 20 active, back-drivable degrees of freedom in its hands – matching human size and dexterity.
- **GENE-26.5 (Foundation Model)**: The AI model that powers Eno. It understands goals, reasons through changing conditions, and completes tasks end-to-end. Trained on massive human-based internet video data and proprietary simulation.
- **Data Collection Glove**: A lightweight, sensor-loaded glove worn by humans to collect high-quality manipulation data in real-world settings (e.g., lab technicians, manufacturing workers). This glove bridges the “embodiment gap” and feeds the model with human skill data.
- **Simulation System**: A proprietary simulation environment that accelerates model training and evaluation, reducing the iteration bottleneck.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$105M** (Seed round, July 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse (co-lead), Khosla Ventures (co-lead), Bpifrance, HSG; individual investors Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, Vladlen Koltun. Hardware manufacturing partner: Wuji Tech (China).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from stealth to ~53–60 employees across Paris, Bay Area, and London (monthly growth +16% on LinkedIn).
  - 29 active job postings as of mid-2026, with a +262.5% monthly increase in openings.
  - Demonstrated a wide range of manipulation tasks (cooking, piano, Rubik’s cube, lab work) in public demos.
  - In talks with multiple customers for commercial deployment in pharma and manufacturing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack integration**: Genesis controls both the AI model and the robotic hardware, enabling tighter optimization and faster iteration than companies that only do software or hardware.
- **Human-like dexterity**: The robotic hand matches human size, shape, and 20 degrees of freedom, allowing direct transfer of human demonstration data without an “embodiment gap.”
- **Data flywheel**: The combination of a low-friction data collection glove, simulation, and egocentric video creates a scalable pipeline for building a “human skill library.”
- **World-class team**: Founders and early engineers have backgrounds from Mistral AI, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Apple Intelligence, Unity, Epic, and leading robotics labs (Berkeley, CMU).

## Strategic Focus
- **Go full stack**: Continue integrating model, hardware, and data collection to deliver a complete general-purpose robot.
- **Commercial rollout**: Target early customers in pharmaceutical labs, manufacturing, and other industrial settings where dexterous manipulation is critical.
- **Scale data collection**: Expand the use of the data glove (both internally and with third-party partners) to rapidly grow the model’s skill repertoire.
- **Global hiring**: Aggressively grow the team across Paris, Bay Area, and London, especially in ML, simulation, rendering, and robotics engineering.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include candor, responsibility, limitless ambition, and a joyful journey. The team is described as multicultural, optimistic, and pragmatic.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office-based presence in Paris, San Francisco Bay Area, and London. No explicit remote policy mentioned, but the company emphasizes in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Builders get to work on the hardest problems in robotics and AI – from foundation models to hardware design to data systems. The team includes pioneers of generative simulation, Diffusion Policy, and GPU compilers.
- **Notable perks**: The chance to shape a category-defining general-purpose robot; close collaboration with world-class investors and advisors; fast-growing startup with significant resources ($105M seed).

## Sources
1. [Genesis AI – Official Website](https://www.genesis.ai/)
2. [Genesis AI – Careers Page](https://www.genesis.ai/careers)
3. [TechCrunch – “Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows”](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/khosla-backed-robotics-startup-genesis-ai-has-gone-full-stack-demo-shows/)
4. [LinkedIn – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gs-ai)
5. [robotics.press – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://robotics.press/news/genesis-ai-company-profile/)

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