Teams at Valstad

Owns day-to-day operations for an early-stage industrial robotics company, including sourcing materials, negotiating with suppliers, issuing and tracking purchase orders, coordinating freight, managing recruiting logistics, supporting onboarding, collecting vendor documentation, coordinating invoices, and maintaining operational systems. The role requires exceptional organization, persistence, resourcefulness, commercial judgment, phone-based follow-up, and comfort solving ambiguous problems independently.

Build production-quality motion-planning and manipulation systems converting CAD/process paths into collision-free, constrained Cartesian robot trajectories. Account for kinematics, inverse kinematics continuity, collision avoidance, external axes, calibration, sensor feedback, trajectory generation, and industrial robot integration. Debug on physical robots, create simulation/verification and logging infrastructure, and work with cross-functional teams to deploy and maintain reliable manufacturing automation.

Lead Valstad's maritime and defense commercial strategy: build relationships across shipyards, vessel owners, Navy, primes; identify and qualify opportunities; lead proposals, negotiations, and pilots; convert demonstrations into repeat production programs; coordinate with engineering and manufacturing; maintain pipeline and CRM; represent the company at industry and government forums.