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title: 'Lead Installation Technician at Glacier'
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# Lead Installation Technician at Glacier

- **Company:** Glacier
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glacier/8c816758-84cf-40ce-a4c3-eb26c724b68e

## Job description

Hey, we're Glacier! Series A startup based in San Francisco tackling one of the world's most pressing problems: trash. Did you know that in the US, we send over half of our recyclables to the landfill? We're working to fix that. In doing so, we'll also be reducing carbon emissions, energy consumption, and depletion of natural resources.

Glacier builds custom sorting robots designed to sort apart recyclables as well as AI-powered business analytics that enable recyclers to superpower their plants and improve our society's circularity. From major CPG companies like Colgate and Amazon https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/recycling/article/22953724/colgatepalmolive-amazon-glacier to municipal recycling facilities, our clients trust us to turn recycling data into actionable insights. Our technology has been recognized as one of TIME's Best Inventions https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318523/glacier-recycling-robots/ and featured in a TIME documentary https://www.pmi.org/project-management-for-impact/sustainability-ai, TechCrunch, Fortune, and CBS.

We're looking for a Deployment Lead to own robot installs end to end, planning first, execution second. You'll build the install plans, schedules, and staffing before the team arrives, then lead that team on-site to execute the plan. When not traveling, you'll work with our Director of Deployments to improve how we install our products at customer sites.

Up to 75% travel, domestic and occasional international.

Responsibilities:

- Own pre-install planning including schedules, staffing, task assignments, parts and equipment logistics
- Lead installation teams at customer sites, overseeing field quality control to ensure safe, efficient, and on-schedule deployments.
- Partner with the Director of Deployments to identify and execute continues improvement projects related to installs.
- Serve as the main on-site contact for customers during installs, providing timeline updates, addressing challenges, and building trust.
- Make on-the-spot decisions when issues arise in the field, balancing customer needs, team capacity, and technical requirements.
- Maintain and update install documentation as needed
- Support in-house manufacturing during non-travel periods

Experience requirements:

- 3+ years leading or coordinating technical builds, installs, or field deployments
- 2+ years of project/hardware deployment planning experience (schedules, staffing, resourcing)
- Comfortable directing a team on-site and interfacing directly with customers
- Familiarity with mechanical/electrical assembly, tools, and build documentation
- Willing to travel frequently (up to 75%, domestic and occasional international), including evenings/weekends
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs, climb, bend, stand for extended periods
- Self-starter, adaptable, detail-oriented

What traits will make you successful in this role:

- You can plan five moves ahead and still keep a group of people moving under pressure
- You follow the plan, but you know exactly when to throw it out and improvise
- You've got real hustle, you don't wait around for someone to tell you what's next
- Nothing slips past you, details matter and you catch what others miss
- You know how to manage up, down, and sideways, with your team, with customers, with leadership
- You want to keep driving toward improvements and aren’t satisfied with “good enough”

Why join us:

- Own end-to-end installs for a fast-growing robotics fleet, real ownership from day one
- Direct, visible impact: your plans will directly lead to working robots at customer sites
- Work closely with leadership to shape how Glacier scales deployment operations
- Mission-driven work ending waste, backed by top-tier VCs with a fleet already in production

If you're excited about planning ahead, leading technical installs, and growing into a bigger strategic role, we'd love to hear from you!

Compensation: The base compensation range for this role is 95,000−110,000. In addition to cash compensation, Glacier also offers competitive equity compensation and benefits. Final compensation depends on individualized factors including skills, experience, and interview performance.

## About Glacier

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Glacier builds next-generation AI-powered robots that make recycling more efficient, profitable, and circular by recovering high-value materials from waste streams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $29M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (co-founders began working on the concept around 2022)
- **Founders**: Rebecca Hu-Thrams and Areeb Malik

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Climate Technology / Recycling Robotics / Waste Management
- **Target customers**: Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) and consumer product brands (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: “End waste by ensuring nothing valuable ends up in a landfill.”

## Products & Services
- **Glacier Robot**: A compact, AI-guided robotic arm that straddles conveyor belts, using a vacuum cup to pick and sort specific recyclables (plastics, film, paper, metals). It is trained on billions of real recycling images and can recognize 30+ material types. The arm can be deployed in hard-to-staff zones and helps MRFs improve yield and safety. [endwaste.io](https://endwaste.io/)
- **AI Brand Intelligence**: A real-time, item-level dashboard that gives brands visibility into exactly what packaging materials are flowing through the recycling stream, enabling them to track recovery rates and improve packaging design. [endwaste.io](https://endwaste.io/)
- **Vision-only system**: Glacier’s AI vision technology can also be deployed without the physical robot, providing material characterization and monitoring for facilities that do not yet need a picker. [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/recycling-gets-smarter-ai-robots-from-amazon-backed-startup-are-sorting-waste-in-seattle/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $29M (as of May 2025 Series A; previously raised $4.5M seed in 2022) – [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/recycling-gets-smarter-ai-robots-from-amazon-backed-startup-are-sorting-waste-in-seattle/)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $3.3M (LinkedIn estimate) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/endwaste)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ecosystem Integrity Fund (lead, Series A), Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, New Enterprise Associates (NEA); key partner: Recology (Seattle) [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/recycling-gets-smarter-ai-robots-from-amazon-backed-startup-are-sorting-waste-in-seattle/)
- **Growth Signals**: 44.4% year-over-year headcount growth (43 employees); robots deployed in California, Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, and Washington; vision-only systems in Indiana, New Jersey, Minnesota, Texas; actively developing technology for biopolyester (plant-based) plastics in partnership with Amazon; Washington State passed recycling legislation (SB 5284) expected to drive further demand. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/endwaste) [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/recycling-gets-smarter-ai-robots-from-amazon-backed-startup-are-sorting-waste-in-seattle/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI**: Trained on billions of real-world recycling images to recognize a wide variety of materials with high accuracy (80-90% capture rate on target plastics).
- **Compact, rugged design**: Robots are smaller and built to retrofit existing conveyor lines without major facility changes.
- **Dual revenue model**: Sells both hardware/robots to MRFs and data/subscriptions (AI Brand Intelligence) to brands, creating sticky relationships on both sides.
- **Mission-driven credibility**: Strong brand alignment with circular economy goals; backed by Amazon and major climate investors.
- **Co-founder domain expertise**: Areeb Malik spent time working on the sorting line to understand real-world challenges; the company emphasizes human-machine collaboration, not replacement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale deployments**: Increasing robot installations across the U.S., especially in states with new extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws.
- **Innovate on new materials**: Developing sorting capabilities for plant-based biopolyesters used by Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods.
- **Deepen brand partnerships**: Expanding the AI Brand Intelligence platform to give consumer goods companies real-time circularity metrics.
- **International reach**: Already operating in 7 countries (U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Canada, Singapore) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/endwaste)

## Why Work Here
- **Impactful mission**: Employees directly contribute to reducing landfill waste and improving recycling rates.
- **Fast-growing team**: 44% headcount growth in the past year, with openings across engineering, operations, field support, and sales. [endwaste.io](https://endwaste.io/about/) [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glacier)
- **Engineering culture**: Co-founders come from tech backgrounds (Malik was a senior software engineer at Facebook); employees work on cutting-edge AI, robotics, and computer vision.
- **Global and diverse team**: Workforce spans 7 countries with a mix of technical, operational, and sales roles.
- **Work location**: Headquarters in San Francisco; remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but roles span multiple geographies. Most employees are in the U.S., with additional hubs in Latin America.

## Sources
1. [endwaste.io](https://endwaste.io/)
2. [endwaste.io/about/](https://endwaste.io/about/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/endwaste](https://www.linkedin.com/company/endwaste)
4. [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2025/recycling-gets-smarter-ai-robots-from-amazon-backed-startup-are-sorting-waste-in-seattle/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/glacier](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glacier)

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