Founding Full-Stack Engineer - Takt

About the role

ABOUT TAKT

Our Vision: A world where factories think.

Takt is building the brains of factories.

Factories have spent the last decade digitizing: adding sensors, software, and

dashboards everywhere. Yet most factories aren’t meaningfully smarter. Data is

fragmented across disconnected systems, locked in reports, and dependent on tribal

knowledge living in people’s heads.

The hard problem isn’t collecting data, it’s turning it into institutional intelligence.

Takt is building the brains of factories. We’re closing the loop from data → information

→ insight → action by orchestrating AI agents with deep operational context across

the entire manufacturing stack. These systems reason about what’s happening, why it’s

happening, and what to do next, acting as a continuous thought partner to factory

leadership across sales, operations, supply chain, and finance.

This is not a chatbot or another analytics layer. We’re pushing the frontier of AI

reasoning and decision-making in real-world, high-stakes environments. Just as Tesla

redefined the car as a software-first system, Takt is redefining manufacturing as a

software-defined industry.

FUNDING

Takt is funded by Pear VC (backed Doordash, Gusto) and is part of the

PearX accelerator program.

Website: www.taktconnect.com http://www.taktconnect.com

FOUNDERS

Takt was founded by Adhitya Raghavan (CEO) and Will Zunker (CTO).

Adhitya is from a small village in South India and first learned about factories by working

as an operator on his father’s shop floor. His journey through squash took him to

Princeton (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), Harvard (MBA, Baker Scholar), and

Bain. Now, he’s bringing it full circle, building Takt to solve the very pain he experienced

firsthand in factories and aiming to put a dent in the $8 trillion of waste that occurs in

manufacturing globally.

Will an MIT PhD has deep experience in optimizing manufacturing processes through

physics-based modeling and AI, driven by a belief that advanced methods can

fundamentally transform how things are made. Along the way, he built open-source

tools and collaborated with engineers across diverse manufacturing sectors, learning

firsthand the challenges of waste and inefficiency on the factory floor. Now, at Takt, he’s

channeling that journey into building technology that helps factories run smarter, faster,

and with less waste.

CORE CULTURAL VALUES

1. Stupid enough to make our dreams a reality: We are dreamers who build a better world. We own our decisions. We have the irrational belief and hunger to work until our dreams are a reality