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title: 'Head of Manufacturing at Charge Robotics'
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# Head of Manufacturing at Charge Robotics

- **Company:** Charge Robotics
- **Location:** San Leandro, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics/d106977e-5fbf-4d12-bd39-e59f721bd65a

## 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 Manufacturing to own the full arc of how our products get built, from standing up and operationalizing our first production facility to building the manufacturing function supporting our field deployments. This is a foundational leadership role: you'll establish the processes, org, and physical infrastructure that take us from early commercial builds to repeatable, high-quality production at scale. You'll work in close partnership with engineering, supply chain, and field teams to ensure everything we ship (at HQ, at the production facility, and at our field deployment sites) is built right, built efficiently, and built to last and improve with time.

## What you will do

- Build, lead, and grow a world-class manufacturing team, and collaborate with company leadership to align manufacturing strategy with company goals and roadmap
- Own the operationalization of our production facility end-to-end (site readiness, equipment, workflows, safety, and staffing) drawing on prior experience doing this before
- Build and maintain a manufacturing engineering org in close lockstep with design engineering to ensure HQ builds, facility production, and field deployments are efficient and continuously optimized for manufacturability. Own the NPI process to ensure smooth handoffs from development into production
- Collaborate with supply chain to drive COGS reduction over time through DFM feedback, process optimization, and yield improvement
- Establish manufacturing processes, documentation, and organizational design (including BOMs, drawings, part qualification, and supplier quality) and set the bar for excellence across all manufacturing activity
- Internally and externally represent the manufacturing function to key stakeholders including employees, customers, executives, and investors, and own EHS compliance and safety culture at the production facility

You

- Have excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate clearly across engineers, suppliers, technicians, and leadership
- Have 10+ years of professional experience, including 3+ years in a manufacturing leadership role, including standing up and operationalizing a production facility
- Have brought complex electromechanical systems, especially those involving metal fabrication, rigging, or heavy machinery, from prototype to production
- Are familiar with DFM, DFA, and/or GD&T principles, and have experience sourcing and qualifying suppliers and contract manufacturers
- Operate effectively in a fast-paced, in-person startup environment; can roll up your sleeves when needed while maintaining context of broader organizational goals
- 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 ~20% travel (including field deployments and production facility)
- Are excited to personally play a part in mitigating climate change

It’d also be nice if you

- Have a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
- Have experience in automation, robotics, or capital equipment manufacturing
- Have experience working with solar or construction industry technologies
- Are familiar with high-complexity, low-volume production environments
- Have used ION manufacturing software

## 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)

## Other roles at Charge Robotics

- [Head of Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-finance-charge-robotics-san-leandro-pn4q05gqsmdz) — San Leandro, CA
- [Lead Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-recruiter-charge-robotics-san-leandro-49exj7tpx7ab) — San Leandro, CA
- [Senior Robotics Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-robotics-software-engineer-charge-robotics-san-leandro-0ffef524zntg) — San Leandro, CA
- [Technical Project Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-project-manager-charge-robotics-san-leandro-ka8pvg2w51v0) — San Leandro, CA
- [Solar Site Superintendent - Mechanical Foreman](https://feeny.ai/job/solar-site-superintendent-mechanical-foreman-charge-robotics-field-cmwk9jb791hw) — Field
- [Electrical Design Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/electrical-design-engineer-charge-robotics-san-leandro-scsm88khfq3j) — San Leandro, CA
- [Senior Electrical Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-electrical-engineer-charge-robotics-san-leandro-w1a9s7jz9cmh) — San Leandro, CA
- [Senior Robotics Integration Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-robotics-integration-engineer-charge-robotics-san-leandro-xynf8kv3daw3) — San Leandro, CA
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- [Robotic Factory Operator](https://feeny.ai/job/robotic-factory-operator-charge-robotics-field-ew1zzqv3sswd) — Field