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title: 'Lead Recruiter at Charge Robotics'
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# Lead Recruiter at Charge Robotics

- **Company:** Charge Robotics
- **Location:** San Leandro, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/charge-robotics/cfe68d75-3bca-4066-8e50-0a1d80d123b8

## Job description

About Charge: Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms. Demand for new solar projects is booming (1/5th 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 started working on robots to directly address this bottleneck and speed up the world’s transition to renewables. 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)
- https://solarindustrymag.com/charge-robotics-completes-deployment-of-solar-construction-system
- [YouTube - video of our robots building a solar farm!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix0oMgqTfko)

Charge’s funding: We’re MIT-founded and backed by top generalist and climate tech investors, including Lux Capital and Y Combinator (S21).

About the role: As the Lead Recruiter at Charge Robotics and founding member of our people & talent function, you’ll take critical ownership of recruiting, work with the team to create an excellent pipeline of candidates, and deliver a standout interview, hiring, and onboarding experience. You'll be substantially responsible for growing our passionate and amazing team as we work together to transform the solar industry.

What you will do:

- Build our talent function and recruiting processes from scratch
- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from sourcing and screening to negotiating and closing
- Be a strategic partner to hiring managers across the company, collaborating on candidate strategy and ensuring that hiring goals are met in a timely manner with top-tier candidates
- Create a positive, seamless, and fair candidate experience
- Initially lead employee onboarding until we can grow into a larger people function
- Report to and collaborate closely with our founder/CEO
- Be the face of Charge Robotics and help us build a stellar employer brand

You'll be successful in this role if you:

- Are excited and motivated to personally play a role in mitigating climate change
- Have 5+ years of experience doing full-cycle recruiting for technical roles
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have superb negotiation and relationship management skills
- Are detail-oriented with a ruthless ability to prioritize
- Have a metrics-driven mindset, leveraging data to understand pipeline health and improve velocity, quality, retention
- Believe in treating all people with dignity and respect, regardless of title or tenure
- Are proficient in ATS and other HR technologies to support data-driven decision-making and process optimization. A few tools that we use: Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gusto
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, in-person startup environment
- Are based in or can relocate to the SF Bay Area, and able to work ~4 days/week from our San Leandro HQ

It’d also be nice if you:

- Are passionate about and knowledgeable of robotics
- Have hired across software and hardware engineering roles
- Have experience building out a people function for a small and rapidly growing team, incl. owning recruiting-adjacent processes like onboarding, brand-building, or HR
- Are excited to see our robots deployed onto actual solar farms!

## 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
- [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
- [Manufacturing Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/manufacturing-engineer-charge-robotics-san-leandro-9m8etpzvz6bx) — San Leandro, CA
- [Robotic Factory Operator](https://feeny.ai/job/robotic-factory-operator-charge-robotics-field-ew1zzqv3sswd) — Field
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