Lead Robotics Engineer

About the role

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture of TAR's robotic systems across mechanical, electrical, controls, and software integration, making and defending the decisions that determine how the machines get built.
• Design, build, and iterate on robotics hardware and software directly, staying in the work while setting the direction for how the team executes it.
• Establish the engineering practices the discipline runs on from day one, including design review, testing, and validation processes and the documentation standards the team scales on.
• Identify and close critical gaps in the team's robotics capability across technical skill, tooling, and process, bringing in the expertise needed to fill them.
• Mentor and grow the robotics engineering team as it is built out, setting the technical bar and engineering culture for every future hire.
• Partner with hardware, software, and manufacturing leadership to keep robotics decisions aligned with the broader product and deployment roadmap.
• Represent robotics engineering in cross-functional planning, translating technical trade-offs into terms the rest of the organization can act on.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in robotics engineering, spanning mechanical, electrical, and/or software and controls disciplines relevant to full robotic systems.
• Demonstrated experience building or leading a robotics engineering function from an early stage, establishing the processes and standards where none existed rather than operating inside a team someone else built.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise across the robotics stack, with the credibility to make and defend architecture decisions.
• Experience mentoring or informally leading other engineers, even without a formal management title.
• Comfortable operating with significant ownership and ambiguity, building the playbook as you go rather than following one that already exists.
• Strong communication skills, able to represent technical decisions to engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.

Nice to have

Salary and Benefits

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals