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Infinite Food | Hackers / Mechanical Engineers / Applied Materials Scientists / Food Scientists and Technologists / Multilingual Multiplatform Mobile App Develo

Infinite Food | Hackers / Mechanical Engineers / Applied Materials Scientists / Food Scientists and Technologists / Multilingual Multiplatform Mobile App Developers | Shenzhen | $neg + equity available | Full-time with VISA or REMOTE | http://8-food.com/ http://8-food.com/ Work on what you want, within reason. Help define the company and take ownership of your chosen field. Registered in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, we are a small, mainland China based, international team in the mid prototyping phase, approaching prep-for-manufacturing on a novel series of distributed food service locations supporting automated food preparation and retail. You can look at them as scaled down factories, robotic chefs or one large distributed just-in-time custom food manufacturing system including the associated logistics network. Fresh ingredients and personalized customer orders in, tasty cooked food out. We are in perfect unison with the largest trends in the sector (convenience, personalization, mobile ordering, commodification of last mile delivery, Chinese 'New Retail'), are already oversubscribed for our next investment round and have recently doubled down by moving to Shenzhen. We have great experience with China, less in manufacturing, lots in complex systems and emerging technology, and multiple successful exits globally. Mandarin speakers well regarded, but Chinese knowledge is not required. Clear written technical communication in English is mandatory. Skills and experience first, qualifications a distant second. We respect execution. Email in profile, please include 'Candidate: <Desired Job Title>' in subject. No recruiters.

bap 9y ago
I'm pretty excited to see this get off the ground, are you planning on U.S. Market or concentrating on Asia/Australia? I'm you're fighting an uphill battle of 'just another vending machine' but IoT, app integrated, food robot! Automated Micro-Restaurant?
- contingencies 9y ago
  Indeed, there's a lot of pent-up vending machine assumptions out there. To help segregate from that baggage, we made the decision to call them 'service locations' instead. The US market has many challenges, including but not limited to a famously high degree of food-related regulation and limited urban density. I think in the US we would test alternate formats such as drive-thrus, but frankly by the time we get there we'll already have made it in Asia. After China we will likely test HK, then probably wealthy, dense, nearby markets with high mobile payment penetration, familiarity with automated retail and aging populations such as Japan and Korea.

bap 9y ago

I'm pretty excited to see this get off the ground, are you planning on U.S. Market or concentrating on Asia/Australia? I'm you're fighting an uphill battle of 'just another vending machine' but IoT, app integrated, food robot! Automated Micro-Restaurant?

contingencies 9y ago
Indeed, there's a lot of pent-up vending machine assumptions out there. To help segregate from that baggage, we made the decision to call them 'service locations' instead. The US market has many challenges, including but not limited to a famously high degree of food-related regulation and limited urban density. I think in the US we would test alternate formats such as drive-thrus, but frankly by the time we get there we'll already have made it in Asia. After China we will likely test HK, then probably wealthy, dense, nearby markets with high mobile payment penetration, familiarity with automated retail and aging populations such as Japan and Korea.