Head of Robotics Operations (Detroit)

Head of Robotics Operations (Detroit)

Posted on 01/05/2026

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Description

Position Details

• Position : Head of Robotics Operations

• Start Date: ASAP

• Location: Newlab, Detroit. Frequent travel to customer sites in the US and occasional international trips.

• Reporting to: Albane Dersy, COO & co-founder

You will work closely with teams in Paris, the US, and Japan, and your work will directly impact deployments in factories worldwide.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary (75th percentile)

• Uncapped deployment incentives

• Generous Stock-options package of our Series A round

• 401(k) match

• Health, dental and vision

• Paid vacation, sick leave, and parental leave

• Team-building events and regular off-sites

• Weekly internal share-times for technical knowledge exchange

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Why this role exists

Inbolt brings intelligence to industrial robots with real-time 3D vision. This role owns the US delivery engine: faster deployments, higher reliability in production, and a tight feedback loop to product and engineering.

You will be the leader of our US Applications Engineering team (player-coach), responsible for execution in factories and building the processes and team to scale.

What you will own

• Deployment execution:Lead commissioning and rollouts at customer sites, from first install to stable production.

• Production reliability:Own escalations, root-cause analysis, and permanent fixes with Engineering.

• Playbooks and standards:Build repeatable deployment processes, checklists, documentation, and training for internal teams and partners.

• Customer-facing technical leadership:Build trust with plant teams, integrators, OEMs, and automation engineers.

• Team leadership:Hire, coach, and structure the US Applications Engineering team as volume scales.

• Field feedback loop:Turn field learnings into product requirements, prioritization inputs, and measurable improvements.

What success looks like (first 6 to 12 months)

• Deployments get faster and more predictable (time-to-production decreases).

• Fewer site emergencies (lower incident rate, faster MTTR when incidents happen).

• Higher production reliability (uptime and cycle consistency improve).

• Engineering gets clear, prioritized feedback with evidence, logs, and reproducible cases.

• The US team becomes a machine: strong hiring bar, clear ownership, clean process.

Minimum Skills & Abilities

Required Skills

• A minimum of 6 years of experience is required.

• Experience as a field-based robotics and/or machine vision application engineer.

• Flexibility with changing requirements in an evolving and fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to travel internationally.

• Ability to build strong relationships with customers and other teams within the company.

• Experience in Industrial Automation, Automotive industrial manufacturing, Computer Vision or similar is a plus

Minimum Education & Experience

Preferred experience

• Strong team spirit and collaboration skills.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities.

• Enthusiastic, hands-on approach.

• Proactive and autonomous with a “get it done” attitude and a drive to exceed objectives.

What We Value

Ownership end-to-end, high standards, speed with precision, and people who build systems, not heroics.

To be considered for this role please apply via Inbolt's career portal here:https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies/inbolt/jobs/head-of-robotics-operations-usa_detroit