R&D Engineering Technician
at Charge Robotics — Robots that build solar farms
What the role involves
About Charge
Charge Robotics is a Series A startup building robots that build solar farms.
Demand for new solar projects is booming (1 ⁄ 5 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 will be compensated accordingly.
If you are excited to work on interesting 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
MIT News – Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
YouTube – full video of our Gen1 robots building a solar farm
- Charge’s funding:
- We’re MIT-founded and backed by top generalist and climate tech investors, including Energy Impact Partners, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Y Combinator (S21).
- What you’ll be working on:
Supporting the mechanical + software engineering teams in assembly, testing, and support of new robotic systems
Maintaining and organizing the workshop
Developing and maintaining engineering documentation including SOPs
As a R&D Engineering Technician at Charge Robotics, you’ll play a major role in building, testing, and deploying our next generation of solar installation robots.
You
Have at least 2+ years of relevant experience
Have mechanical intuition refined through personal or professional projects
Have a positive attitude and like working on a team
Will follow safety procedures + reinforce a culture of safety
It’d also be nice if you:
Have experience working with industrial robot arms, end effectors, and automation systems
- 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
Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. Solar has rapidly become the cheapest form of power generation in many regions. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the primary barrier to getting it installed is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots remove the labor bottleneck, allowing construction companies to meet the rising demand for solar, and enabling the world to switch to renewables faster.
Full Charge Robotics profile