Technical Leadership
- System Architecture: Responsible for the requirements and architecture of our deployment system.
- Hardware Development: Partner with EPC firms to accelerate hardware prototyping and production scaling.
Business & Team Management
- Outcome Ownership: Own large business outcomes, including the development schedule, budget, and qualification timeline for production.
- Team Building: Mentor and manage a small team world-class engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree: BS/MS/PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- Software: High proficiency in CAD software (Solidworks, NX) and PLM systems.
- Manufacturing: Background in Design for Manufacture (DFM) for mass-producting hardware.
- Scaling: Experience managing EPC firms or external partners for prototyping and production scaling preferred.
- Management: Preferred 3+ years in a management position, guiding hardware development and developing engineering talent.
- Startup experience: Proven ability to move fast, wear multiple hats, and solve complex problems with limited resources.
Top Skills
What We Do
Roadrunner Venture Studios is a company creation factory.
We co-found breakthrough deep-tech ventures with the nation’s most brilliant scientists, engineers, and innovators in Energy, Space, Clean Tech, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Quantum, and High Performance Computing.
Our team gets involved at the earliest possible moment — often when a company is just a whiteboard scribble, a concept modeled in wire-frame, or as founders are puzzling through how to design a pitch deck or process payroll — and rapidly accelerates product development, commercialization, and recruitment.
We are the ultimate company “starter-kit,” equipping our portfolio companies with everything they need to go from the kernel of an idea to a venture-backed growth engine. Our promise is clear: our founders leave our studio with a company, a check, a customer, and a team.
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