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# Head of Engineering at Charge Robotics

- **Company:** Charge Robotics
- **Location:** San Leandro, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics/74db81eb-5cdc-4d58-9b7c-d3f377105666

## Job description

## About Charge

Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms. Demand for new solar projects is booming (one-fifth of all the solar that exists in the US was installed last year!), but today’s construction companies can’t keep up due to limited labor resources. We thought this was insane, so we developed robots to directly address this bottleneck and speed up the world’s transition to renewables. We’ve shipped our first commercial system already, and are in the process of scaling up our operations to meet our massive demand. Charge is a fast-moving company, which means constant opportunities for learning and growth. You’ll have a large impact on the direction of our company and our product, which will be reflected in significant equity compensation. And you get to work with 🤖 giant robots 🤖. If you are excited to work on interesting technical problems with direct climate impact, you’re going to fit right in at Charge Robotics. Read more about Charge in recent press:

- [Fast Company - Solar Building Robots to Solve One of Climate's Biggest Problems](https://www.fastcompany.com/91108331/these-solar-assembling-robotic-arms-could-solve-one-of-the-industrys-biggest-problems)
- [MIT News - Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories](https://news.mit.edu/2025/charge-robotics-makes-solar-projects-cheaper-faster-portable-factories-0312)
- [YouTube - full video of our Gen1 robots building a solar farm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2fP1Y5Z2E)

Charge’s funding: We’re MIT-founded and backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, including Founders Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Lux Capital, YC (S21), and more.

## About the role

Charge Robotics is hiring a Head of Engineering to lead the engineering team through our next stage of growth: transitioning from first commercial deployments to repeatable builds and performance at scale. You will lead a 15+ person, cross‑disciplinary team and stay hands-on where needed to keep execution fast and technical quality high.

## What you will do

- Report directly to the CEO in order to lead, mentor, and grow an all-star, multi-disciplinary engineering team
- Collaborate closely with company leadership to align the strategic direction of engineering initiatives with company goals and roadmap
- Be a critical part of driving the design of our product while architecting the team structure and engineering processes required to bring it to deployed reality
- Scale engineering operations from R&D through manufacturing, leading the transition from prototype development to full production
- Internally and externally represent the engineering function of the organization to key stakeholders including employees, customers, executives, and investors
- Establish and continuously improve engineering management processes, including performance reviews, planning, and organizational design
- Set the bar for excellence across engineering activity, including implementing best practices for development, testing, and documentation
- Continuously learn new industry best practices and emerging technologies

As Head of Engineering at Charge Robotics, you’ll have a wide and critical impact which includes shaping our core technical team, expanding our existing culture of engineering excellence, creating effective processes, and helping ship a transformative product. You'll engage with internal and external teams to help ensure we’re successful in achieving our mission of creating a better way to build solar power.

You

- Gain satisfaction from personally playing a part in mitigating climate change
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have excellent interpersonal relationship management skills
- Have 5+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
- Have overseen multiple development cycles end-to-end and shipped complex electromechanical systems
- Can roll up your sleeves to dive into a problem when needed, but maintain context of broader organizational goals and perspective
- Are strongly opinionated but know how and when to compromise effectively
- Are versed in walking the careful balance between shipping quickly and shipping quality
- Operate effectively in the fast-paced environment of a rapidly growing startup
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field
- Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work 4-5 days/week from our San Leandro HQ
- Are open to ~10% travel to field (solar construction sites) to work directly with our product in its deployment environment
- Are excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms!

It’d also be nice if you

- Have extensive experience developing automation and robotics systems
- Have experience working with solar power generation technologies
- Have experience working directly in multiple different engineering disciplines

Base pay is one element of our Total Rewards package which may also include comprehensive benefits and equity, depending on eligibility. The annual base salary range for this position is from $180,000 to $300,000. The actual base pay offered will be determined on factors such as years of relevant experience, skills, education and training. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

## About Charge Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Charge Robotics builds robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction, enabling faster, cheaper, and safer deployment of utility-scale solar farms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $17.1M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Leandro, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Banks Hunter (CEO) and Max Justicz (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Solar construction automation / Robotics for renewable energy infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B – solar construction companies, EPC contractors, and utility-scale project developers.
- **Mission or purpose**: Accelerate the transition to renewables by removing the labor bottleneck that limits solar installation growth.

## Products & Services
- **Sunrise (Autonomous Solar Construction System)**: A fully autonomous system that handles the most labor-intensive parts of solar farm assembly – including pile driving, racking installation, and module placement. It is deployed as a portable factory on-site, dramatically reducing the need for specialized manual labor.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $17,124,997 (as of August 2024, led by Lux Capital).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lux Capital, Y Combinator (S21 batch), Gustaf Alstromer (primary partner).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 40% YoY to 26 employees (as of mid-2025).
  - Deployed first commercial system in late 2025.
  - Featured in MIT News and Fast Company for breakthrough solar construction automation.
  - Active job postings increased 450% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in solar construction robotics**: While many companies automate solar manufacturing, Charge Robotics is one of the few focused on the on-site assembly process – the current bottleneck.
- **Portable factory model**: Their system can be shipped and set up directly at project sites, reducing transportation costs and assembly time.
- **Strong founding team**: MIT EECS backgrounds (Banks Hunter and Max Justicz) with deep technical expertise in robotics and systems engineering.
- **Backed by top-tier climate and deep-tech investors** (Lux Capital, Y Combinator).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale commercial deployments**: After proving the first commercial system, the company is now focused on scaling production and expanding to more solar projects.
- **Hiring across engineering and operations**: Open roles include Head of Engineering, Senior Software Engineer, Robotics Field Engineer, and more – indicating a push to grow the team and product simultaneously.
- **Reduce cost of solar installation**: Long-term goal is to make solar farms cheaper and faster to build, enabling renewables to outcompete fossil fuels on a massive scale.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact climate mission**: Directly contributes to accelerating the global energy transition by solving a real-world bottleneck in solar construction.
- **Fast-growing startup**: 40% headcount growth and a clear trajectory from prototype to commercial deployment.
- **Culture**: Described as fostering creativity, collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity (from careers page). Offers comprehensive benefits and a sense of purpose.
- **Work policy**: On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Leandro HQ and Oakland office). Roles are primarily in-person for hardware and robotics work.
- **Engineering focus**: Strong technical team with talent sourced from Tesla, Aeva, Vicarious Surgical, and other advanced robotics companies. Opportunity to work on full-stack robotics (software, hardware, field integration).

## Sources
1. [chargerobotics.com](https://chargerobotics.com/)
2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/charge-robotics)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/charge-robotics)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics) (careers page)

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