Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Charge Robotics | Y Combinator's Work at a Startup

Charge Robotics is a YC-backed startup building robots that build large-scale 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.

We’re a small, fast moving company which means constant opportunity 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 play with 🤖 giant robots 🤖.

If you are excited to work on interesting technical problems with direct climate impact, you’re going to fit right in.

Skills: Git, Python, Machine Learning

Read more about Charge in recent press:

• Fast Company - Solar Building Robots to Solve One of Climate's Biggest Problems
• Solar Industry Mag - Charge Completes First Robotics Deployment with Nation's Largest Solar EPC (SOLV Energy)
• YouTube - full video of our Gen1 robots building a solar farm

Charge’s funding:

We’re MIT-founded and backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors, including Lux, YC (S21), Uphonest, Collab, E14, Outset, and more.

What you’ll be working on:

• Architecting the software foundation, developing, and maintaining high-quality code and documentation for a robotic system on our automated delivery vehicle
• Designing robust, low-level software with emphasis on correctness and safety
• Controlling industrial automation hardware including linear actuators, motor controllers, and hydraulic systems.

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Charge Robotics, your work will directly deploy gigawatts of clean power generation.

You:

• Are an experienced Python developer, but you are probably also familiar with some lower-level languages
• Are obsessed with writing correct code
• Are excited to work with low-level hardware
• Know how to write software as a member of a team, including writing clean code, documenting it, testing it, and using version control and CI.
• Have an advanced understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Have excellent written communication skills
• Are based in or can relocate to the SF bay area
• Are excited to see your work deployed onto actual solar farms!

If you’re interested in leveraging your software development skills to have massive climate impact, we want to talk to you.

It’d also be nice if you:

• Have at least a 4-year degree in CS or similar
• Know how to instrument and develop highly performant code
• Gain satisfaction from personally playing a part in mitigating climate change