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R&D Engineering Technician

Charge Robotics logoCharge RoboticsYC S21
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SeniorityJunior
Salary$36–$43/hr
LocationSan Leandro, CA
Posted6/9/2026
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About the role

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.

What you’ll be working on:

  • Complex electro-mechanical assembly of our robotic systems

  • Supporting the hardware and software engineering teams in assembly, testing, and support of new robotic systems

  • Maintaining and organizing the workshop

  • Developing and maintaining engineering documentation, including assembly instructions and SOPs

You:

  • Have at least 2+ years of relevant experience in complex mechanical or electrical assembly

  • Have mechanical or electrical intuition refined through personal or professional projects

  • Are comfortable interpreting schematics/CAD/technical drawings and assembling complex systems independently

  • Have a positive attitude and like working in-person on a fast-paced startup 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 industrial automation systems

About Charge Robotics

We are 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

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

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.

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Charge Robotics

We build robots that build solar farms.

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, and demand is skyrocketing (one fifth of all the solar in the US today was installed last year!) but today's construction companies can't find the labor to build in these remote areas under extreme heat, dust, and wind. Our robots make it cheaper, faster, and safer to build utility-scale solar farms, allowing construction companies to meet the rising demand for solar and enabling the world to switch to renewables faster. We’re MIT-founded and based in the East Bay, backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors - including Founders Fund, EIP, and Y Combinator (S21).

Private companySeries BYC S21
HQSan Leandro, United States
Size11–50 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Industry
Construction
Funding
  • Series B · $22M · Mar 12, 2025
  • Funding round · Aug 2, 2024

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