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Lab37 Robotics

Automates makeline with robotic food assembly

Product Manager - Robotic Kitchen

Full-TimePosted on 10/20/2026
$167k - $230k/yr+ Equity awards + Annual performance-based bonus
Senior
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In PersonOffice-based teams work onsite five days a week.
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5–8 years of experience, including 4+ years as a product manager owning B2B or operational products end to end.
  • Experience building tools for frontline teams such as kitchen, warehouse, field, or retail-floor teams and taking them from discovery through launch.
  • Ability to rapidly build prototypes and minimum viable products with artificial intelligence tools to test concepts with real users.
  • Ability to translate complex operational problems into intuitive solutions with measurable results.
  • Systems thinking to understand how changes to recipes, menus, inventory, and production affect a connected operation and to make that complexity simple for users.
  • Comfort spending time in kitchens, observing workflows, and translating operator feedback and data into product decisions.
  • Ability to write clear requirements, explain trade-offs, and align culinary, operations, engineering, and data science teams.
Responsibilities
  • Own product definition, strategy, and roadmap for KitchenOS tools supporting research and development teams, brand managers, and kitchen operators across recipe development, menu building, production, and inventory workflows.
  • Turn operator insights and operational data into clear priorities and requirements.
  • Lead the product lifecycle from discovery through quality assurance, rollout, and iteration, coordinating delivery across the KitchenOS roadmap.
  • Define and prioritize operator-facing KitchenOS tools using field research, operational data, and business impact.
  • Build workflows that turn new concepts and menu changes into launch-ready experiences and keep customer orders aligned with kitchen preparation.
  • Simplify preparation, receiving, and inventory processes into intuitive workflows that support consistent operations across sites.
  • Partner with engineering and data science to translate forecasts, recommendations, and operational signals into tools operators can trust and act on.
  • Make current recipes, instructions, and quality checks accessible where work is performed to support adoption and reliable execution.
  • Coordinate milestones and dependencies across product, engineering, data science, and operations; surface risks early and resolve trade-offs.
  • Write clear requirements, test in real kitchens, and own launch readiness, including quality assurance, field pilots, documentation, training, and iteration.
  • Align culinary, brand, operations, and technical teams around measurable outcomes; use adoption, operator effectiveness, launch speed, and execution quality to guide priorities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in food, restaurant technology, logistics, or manufacturing.

About the company

Lab37 builds robotics and software for automated food assembly in restaurants and food production. Its flagship system, Bowl Builder, runs the makeline from bowl dispensing and ingredient portioning through lid application, labeling, and bagging. It uses thermally controlled dispensers, integrates with point-of-sale and delivery systems, and supports configurable recipes and customer modifications. The modular setup is designed for deployment across multiple locations and a range of bowl-based meals and ingredients. Compared with others, Lab37 focuses on end-to-end kitchen infrastructure that links robotics with software, POS and delivery, enabling higher throughput, consistency, and easier scale across sites. Its goal is to help operators address labour shortages, reduce order errors, and improve margins by automating the meal assembly process.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Lab37 says Bowl Builder is already operating across U.S. restaurants in 2026.
  • The company’s site claims 300 bowls hourly and 40%+ labor reduction.
  • Atoms’ $1.7 billion funding in 2026 gives Lab37 capital for manufacturing and sales.

What critics are saying

  • CloudKitchens cut staff and closed sites in 2023, 2024, and Oakland in 2025.
  • Lab37 still discloses no system count, customer list, or audited unit economics.
  • If chain adoption stalls, Lab37 remains a demo product inside Kalanick’s unproven Atoms stack.

What makes Lab37 Robotics unique

  • Lab37’s Bowl Builder automates bowl assembly end-to-end, from dispense to bag close.
  • The system integrates POS and delivery orders, matching restaurant workflows rather than standalone robotics.
  • Atoms backs Lab37 with CloudKitchens facilities, creating real-world testing and deployment infrastructure.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Pet Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Paid Bereavement leave