Who this takes
Open roles aheadThe vision stands on software, and the software stands on people who have actually made things. This page is honest about what the team must look like — and about what kind of money it takes to build an operating layer before it earns a krone.
Everything in the model — tiers, portable blueprints, certified hubs, routing — is bound together by two systems: the factory OS that runs a hub, and the supply-and-logistics OS that connects hubs into a network and decides where a product should be produced. Those systems are the product. That makes Moduloa Manufacturing, at its core, a software company that happens to smell like a factory.
What the team must be made of
A serious software organization
Not just developers: system architects, database and data engineers, platform and IT infrastructure, DevOps, and product engineers who can turn factory reality into versioned configuration. IT/OT convergence is treated as a security discipline from day one — the moment software controls physical production, cybersecurity is a safety function, not an afterthought. AI is leverage across all of it: quoting, process design, routing, task libraries, and quality prediction.
The manufacturing baseplate
Engineers and operators who have lived real production — NPI, tooling, quality systems, supplier discipline, changeovers at 03:00. Deliberately multicultural: the deepest manufacturing knowledge on Earth sits in Asia, and this company is built by learning from the people who have it, not by pretending Norway can rediscover it alone.
Capital that understands the shape
The first real sunk cost is software R&D — many paychecks leave before anything comes back. What that buys is an ultra-scalable platform: prove the operating model in one hub, then scale by converting existing factories — acquire, retrofit, certify, connect — bounded by capital, not by concept. This needs investors who care about the mission and understand that the venture-scale asset is the framework, not any single factory.
Pilot partners with real products
Moduloa does not own a product line — so proving the system requires partners who do. Established product companies of the Philips, Dreame, or Roborock type: deep portfolios of high-volume mechatronic products, and every reason to want manufacturing optionality. A pilot partner lends the system a real product to industrialize; they get portability, we get truth.
On the floor, not on a call
The first factory is the classroom, and attendance is not optional. The engineers who build the factory OS sit where the factory is — watching the line, feeling the changeovers, seeing their software meet physical reality the same day they write it. Remote work is not how this phase gets built. The people who want to be here are the people this needs.
Moduloa Manufacturing does not design, own, or sell its own products. It is the layer other companies produce through: capacity, tiers, blueprints, and routing as a service. And it is deliberately not a lights-out factory in the classic sense — one product, produced very well, forever. It is the opposite ambition: the same flexibility a lights-out plant gives up is exactly what this system is built to industrialize.
Toolmakers and fixture builders — the craft Norway let slip, and the first capability to rebuild. Robotics integration and machine-safety engineers, because humanoids in production are a safety case before they are a feature. Quality and certification leadership, because certification is the product. Supply-chain and procurement veterans. Legal and IP capability for a certification and licensing model that crosses borders. And the people who can teach all of it — the future Moduloa Academy.
If you have built production systems, run factories in Asia, secured OT environments, industrialized consumer products, or funded infrastructure-scale software — and this page reads like something you have been waiting for — write: shk@moduloa.com.