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title: 'VP of Operations at Corvus Robotics'
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# VP of Operations at Corvus Robotics

- **Company:** Corvus Robotics
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/corvus-robotics/897b5403-4a26-4053-84fc-afc5cce329c4

## Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled and strategic VP of Operations to join our fast-paced, mission-driven team. You will be instrumental in scaling Corvus by owning manufacturing, supply chain, and hardware operations end-to-end as we deploy autonomous drones across the world's largest warehouses. We need a leader who has lived and breathed hardware - electronics, robotics, and production at scale - and is committed to building an operations engine that matches the ambition of our product.

## About Corvus

Corvus Robotics builds fully autonomous, infrastructure-free drones that give Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises real-time inventory visibility inside their warehouses and distribution centers. Founded out of MIT and headquartered in Mountain View, CA, our systems are purpose-built in America and deployed through a Robots-as-a-Service model. Hardware quality, manufacturing reliability, and deployment logistics are core to our business.

## What You'll Do

- Own end-to-end hardware operations: supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
- Scale our production processes without sacrificing quality or reliability.
- Build and manage relationships with contract manufacturers, component suppliers, and logistics partners.
- Increase manufacturing velocity while navigating component sourcing, lead times, and supply chain risk.
- Establish quality systems, testing protocols, and reliability standards for robots that operate 24/7 in active industrial environments.
- Partner closely with engineering on DFM (design for manufacturability), NPI (new product introduction), and hardware revision cycles
- Build and lead the operations team as we grow
- Own operational metrics: unit economics, yield, on-time deployment, and hardware uptime.

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of operations experience in hardware, with significant time in robotics, electronics, or complex electromechanical products.
- Hands-on familiarity with electronics manufacturing - you must know the difference between a PCB and a machined part, and dealt with the suppliers who make them.
- Proven track record scaling production of a hardware product.
- Experience managing contract manufacturers and multi-tier supply chains, ideally including overseas and domestic production.
- Fluency in the language of hardware: BOMs, EVT/DVT/PVT, yield, MTBF, ECOs, and factory ramps.
- Strong first-principles thinker who is comfortable operating with ambiguity at a fast-moving startup.
- Willingness to be hands-on - on the factory floor, at supplier sites, and in customer warehouses when needed.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with drones, UAVs, or autonomous mobile robots.
- Experience with Robots-as-a-Service or other hardware-enabled recurring revenue models.
- Background in regulated or safety-critical hardware environments.
- Experience deploying hardware fleets into industrial or logistics environments.

## Why Join Us

You'll join a team solving some of the hardest problems in physical AI - autonomy, reliability, and real-world deployment at national scale - with a product already trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises across retail, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution. This is a rare opportunity to own the operational backbone of a category-defining robotics company at the inflection point of its growth.

## About Corvus Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Corvus Robotics provides an autonomous inventory intelligence platform for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 warehouses, using drones and AI copilots to automate cycle counting and material handling operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series unknown; backed by Y Combinator, S2G Ventures, Catalyst Investors, Spero Ventures, and Tesla’s cofounder)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Jackie Wu (CEO & Founder) and Kabir Mohammed (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Industrial robotics / Warehouse automation / Supply chain intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B — large enterprise (Fortune 500, Global 2000) operators of distribution centers, cold chain/freezer warehouses, and complex material handling facilities
- **Mission/purpose**: “Autonomous inventory intelligence for the physical economy” — the company exists to impact the physical economy of plants, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, driving global economic growth by improving the supply chain.

## Products & Services
- **Corvus One®**: A fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone that flies without a pilot, stickers, or beacons, using onboard cameras for real-time scanning. Designed for cycle counting in ambient, cold chain, and freezer environments. Deployed in under one week on-site.
- **Corvus Trident™**: An AI Copilot installed on forklifts and other material handling equipment that tracks all pallet moves in real time, giving operators and managers instant visibility into inventory location changes.
- **Unified Operations Platform**: A single dashboard that aggregates data from Corvus One, Trident, and any existing WMS via API, providing one source of inventory truth and discrepancy alerts. Runs on-premise for enterprise data security.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Not publicly disclosed. Institutional backers include Y Combinator, S2G Ventures, Catalyst Investors, Spero Ventures, and Tesla co-founder (implied via the company page). Also backed by executives from Amazon’s Kiva Systems.
- **Key Metric**: 300+ devices deployed across North America; 30 enterprise customers served; 26 U.S. states and territories with active deployments.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: S2G Ventures, Catalyst Investors, Spero Ventures, Y Combinator. Investors include leaders from Amazon Kiva Systems and Tesla.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 9 distribution centers deployed with measurable results (some customers report 6x labor hours saved, recovery of $1.25M in lost inventory, reallocation of 35,000+ hours, and elimination of manual cycle counting across nine sites)
  - Launch of Corvus Trident AI Copilot (recent product expansion)
  - Appointment of Michael McSpedon as CRO (former 3x CRO who took companies to $100M+ revenue)
  - Strong headcount growth: actively hiring for multiple engineering, deployment, and assembly roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full autonomy**: Corvus One operates with no pilot, no stickers, no beacons — truly “lights out” warehouse autonomous flights.
- **Cold chain specialization**: Drones are purpose-built for freezer/cold storage environments where many competitors cannot operate.
- **On-prem data security**: Enterprise data stays on-premise, addressing compliance and security concerns of large logistics operators.
- **Dual product ecosystem**: Combining aerial drones (Corvus One) with forklift-mounted AI (Trident) covers both storage and movement visibility, creating a unified layer above the WMS.
- **Fast deployment**: “1 week on-site deployment” for most sites, supported by dedicated CS & implementation engineers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Physical AI expansion**: Extending from inventory counting to full material handling automation across all warehouse form factors.
- **Enterprise scaling**: Growing footprint within existing Global 2000 customer accounts and onboarding new Fortune 500 sites.
- **Product-line expansion**: Recent launch of Trident indicates a move into real-time pallet tracking and forklift-adjacent AI.
- **Geographic coverage**: Scaling deployments across North America (already in 26 states/territories) with a “built, deployed, and supported in the US” value proposition.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team focused on solving “some of the hardest problems” in robotics and AI with a pragmatic, direct communication style. Core values include “Whatever it takes,” “Be a good person,” and “Do work you’re proud of.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/onsite presence in Mountain View, CA (Bay Area). Some roles (like Assembly Technician and Hardware roles) require on-site work; software roles may have flexible hybrid schedules as noted by team testimonials.
- **Notable perks/culture highlights**:
  - High-density engineering talent — founders and CTO come from MIT and Northwestern robotics programs
  - Real-world impact: Employees work directly with customers to see robots in action in warehouses
  - “Cutting-edge innovation” in computer vision, robotics, and AI
  - Strong team culture described by current engineers as welcoming, collaborative, and focused on impactful work
  - Open to extraordinary talent: Career page explicitly invites candidates who don’t fit a job description to email career@corvus-robotics.com
- **Current open roles** (as of late 2024/2025): Robotics Software Engineer, Robotics Deployment Manager, Production Lead, Assembly Technician, Head of Marketing, and other specialized roles — signaling strong operational scaling.

## Sources
1. [corvus-robotics.com](https://www.corvus-robotics.com/)
2. [corvus-robotics.com/company](https://www.corvus-robotics.com/company)
3. [corvus-robotics.com/careers](https://www.corvus-robotics.com/careers)
4. [corvus-robotics.com/about](https://www.corvus-robotics.com/about)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/corvus-robotics](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/corvus-robotics)

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