VP, Engineering - Integrated Robotics Systems

About the role

Simbe Robotics is a leading retail robotics company delivering in-store intelligence solutions that help retailers optimize operations, improve shelf execution, and unlock actionable data insights. Our autonomous robots, computer vision systems, and cloud-based analytics platform operate in live retail environments at scale, enabling enterprise customers to make faster, data-driven decisions. Position Overview Simbe is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and unify our full-stack engineering organization across robotics, hardware, AI, cloud, and data systems. This role owns end-to-end engineering execution and technical alignment across: - Mechanical Engineering - Hardware R&D and Electrical Engineering - Robotics Software and Embedded Systems - Computer Vision and Applied AI - Cloud Infrastructure and Web Platforms - Data Science and Data Platforms - Product Roadmap Management The VP of Engineering will ensure architectural cohesion across hardware and software, operational excellence in production and deployment, and continued advancement of our deep technology capabilities. This is a systems-level leadership role requiring both technical depth and organizational scale. The mandate is to build a unified, enterprise-grade robotics and intelligence platform that performs reliably across thousands of real-world retail environments.