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Salary: USD 180,000 - 300,000 / annual
Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that construct solar farms, addressing labor bottlenecks in the rapidly growing solar installation industry. The company has already shipped its first commercial system and is scaling operations to meet significant demand. You will lead a 15+ person cross-disciplinary engineering team through the critical transition from prototype development and first commercial deployments to repeatable, scalable production builds.
In this role, you report directly to the CEO and serve as the engineering leader responsible for team growth, mentorship, and execution excellence. You will collaborate with company leadership to align engineering strategy with overall business goals and product roadmap. You'll be hands-on where needed, diving into technical problems while maintaining organizational perspective. Key responsibilities include scaling engineering operations across R&D, manufacturing, and production; establishing and improving engineering management processes including performance reviews and organizational design; setting standards for development, testing, and documentation; and representing the engineering function to employees, customers, executives, and investors.
You'll shape the core technical team, expand the culture of engineering excellence, create effective processes, and help ship a transformative product with direct climate impact. The role requires balancing speed with quality, operating effectively in a fast-paced startup environment, and engaging with both internal teams and field deployments at solar construction sites.
Charge is MIT-founded and backed by top-tier investors including Founders Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Lux Capital, and Y Combinator (S21).
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple development cycles end-to-end and shipping complex electromechanical systems
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Physics, or related field
- Based in or able to relocate to SF Bay Area; able to work 4-5 days/week from San Leandro HQ
- Open to ~10% travel to field (solar construction sites)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal relationship management skills
- Ability to roll up sleeves and dive into problems while maintaining broader organizational perspective
- Strongly opinionated but able to compromise effectively
- Skilled at balancing rapid shipping with quality
- Passion for climate change mitigation
NICE-TO-HAVE:
- Extensive experience developing automation and robotics systems
- Experience with solar power generation technologies
- Experience working across multiple engineering disciplines
