Join us in solving one of industrial robotics' toughest challenges.
R3 Robotics is developing the AI-powered dismantling platform that transforms end-of-life electric vehicle systems into strategic sources of critical materials. As global electrification accelerates, the surge in batteries and e-motors requires automated solutions that manual disassembly cannot provide. We are addressing this industrial bottleneck by enabling the automated dismantling of complex systems at scale through computer vision, artificial intelligence, and specialized robotic tooling.
Following a successful €20M Series A funding round led by HG Ventures and Suma Capital, we are expanding across Europe and preparing for our entry into the United States market in 2026. We partner with major industrial recyclers and automotive OEMs to deliver measurable impact. If you seek to work on advanced robotics within a well-funded organization scaling internationally, this is your opportunity.
Your Role
We're hiring a VP of Software to own the software stack that powers our robotic disassembly platforms — from perception and motion planning to the fleet and data systems that support live customer sites. You'll be the senior-most software leader in the company, setting technical direction, building and running the engineering organization, and staying hands-on with the architecture decisions that matter. This is a role for someone who has taken robotic or industrial software from early concept through real, validated deployments at customer sites — not just in a lab.
Your Responsibilities
- Own the software strategy and architecture across perception, controls, fleet management, and cloud/data systems for R3's robotic disassembly platforms.
- Lead SW development end-to-end: take software from concept and prototype through validation and hardening at live customer and industrial sites.
- Make and defend key architectural decisions — build vs. buy, on-robot vs. cloud, real-time vs. batch — balancing reliability, safety, and speed of iteration.
- Build, manage, and grow a high-performing software organization, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
- Partner directly with hardware, mechanical, and controls teams to ensure software and physical systems are co-designed, not bolted together.
- Establish engineering processes — code review, testing, CI/CD, incident response —appropriate forsafety-relevant industrial robotics.
- Work with customers and field teams to diagnose deployment issues and feed learnings back into the product roadmap.
- Represent software in company-wide strategic planning, reporting to the CEO and collaborating closely with the executive team.