Head of Engineering

The role

The Head of Engineering will lead a 15+ person cross-disciplinary team through the transition from first commercial deployments to repeatable builds and performance at scale. You will report to the CEO to lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team while driving product design and scaling operations from R&D to manufacturing.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team
• Collaborate with company leadership to align engineering initiatives with company goals and roadmap
• Drive product design and architect team structure and engineering processes
• Scale engineering operations from R&D through manufacturing
• Represent the engineering function to employees, customers, executives, and investors
• Establish and improve engineering management processes
• Set the bar for excellence across engineering activity
• Continuously learn new industry best practices and emerging technologies

Required qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal relationship management skills
• 5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
• Overseen multiple development cycles end-to-end and shipped complex electromechanical systems
• Ability to dive into a problem when needed while maintaining context of broader organizational goals
• Strongly opinionated but knows how and when to compromise effectively
• Versed in the balance between shipping quickly and shipping quality
• Operate effectively in the fast-paced environment of a rapidly growing startup
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field
• Based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area
• Able to work 4-5 days/week from San Leandro HQ
• Open to ~10% travel to field (solar construction sites)

Nice to have

• Extensive experience developing automation and robotics systems
• Experience working with solar power generation technologies
• Experience working directly in multiple different engineering disciplines

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Equity

About the company

Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms. The company is MIT-founded and backed by investors including Founders Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Lux Capital, and YC.