Head of Engineering

The Role

We're looking for a senior engineering leader to build and lead Dyna's blended engineering organization across hardware, software, AI systems, and deployment-facing product work. This leader will create the team structure, operating rhythm, communication loops, and execution discipline that turn research breakthroughs into reliable customer deployments.

This is not a pure technical architect role or a staff-plus IC role. You should understand complex hardware-software and AI-enabled systems deeply enough to ask the right questions, align experts, and connect research, software, hardware, and field deployment decisions. Your primary mandate is organizational: build the team, retain strong people, manage progress, share context, and ensure execution across ambiguous, high-stakes work.

We're positioned to redefine the landscape of robotic automation. The Role

What You'll Do

• Team Building & Retention: Hire, onboard, grow, and retain ICs and managers; build leadership capacity, clear ownership, useful feedback loops, and career paths before the organization outgrows them.
• Operating Cadence & Resource Bottlenecks: Set planning cadences, milestones, owners, decision forums, and progress visibility while identifying bottlenecks across people, decisions, dependencies, hardware access, deployment support, and cross-team capacity.
• Execution Ownership: Drive large, cross-functional initiatives from definition through field validation, launch, and post-deployment learning; define readiness criteria and operating metrics so quality, reliability, and safety risks are visible before deployment.
• Research-to-Deployment Loop: Partner with research, software, hardware, and operations so customer deployment feedback becomes actionable engineering and research priorities.
• Vision & Context Alignment: Translate leadership-team vision into clear execution context for managers and ICs, keeping teams aligned on goals, tradeoffs, risks, timelines, resource constraints, and next decisions.

What You'll Bring

• Engineering Leadership & Org Building: 10+ years in hardware, software, robotics, or complex systems engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and 1+ year managing managers, with a track record hiring, scaling, retaining, and developing teams through fast growth and ambiguity.
• Operating Discipline: Strong instincts for planning, accountability, risk management, execution reviews, readiness tracking, resource bottleneck detection, and clearing systemic blockers without becoming the technical owner of every detail.
• Hardware + Software Systems Context: Real understanding of environments where software/AI, hardware, and real-world deployment are tightly coupled, such as AV, AR/VR, robotics, drones, consumer electronics, smart devices, or AI-enabled manufacturing; enough technical judgment to align specialists without acting as the primary IC.
• Research-to-Deployment Fluency: Experience taking research prototypes, complex hardware-software systems, or physical AI products toward dependable real-world deployment.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Ability to coordinate clearly with researchers, engineering leads, hardware, operations, deployment, product, field operators, executives, and customers, translating leadership direction into execution-team context without losing ownership, urgency, or clarity.

Bonus Points For

• Relevant Backgrounds: Robotics is a strong plus, but not required. Strong candidates may come from AV, AR/VR, drones, consumer electronics, smart devices, hardware + software platforms, AI-enabled manufacturing, or similar complex hardware-software environments.
• Org Scaling: Experience scaling an engineering organization through multiple layers of management.
• Field Feedback Loops: Experience building deployment-feedback loops where real-world data directly improves research, models, product, or platform reliability.
• Technical Exposure: Exposure to ML training infrastructure, model serving, data systems, real-time systems, edge deployment, hardware-software interfaces, or complex physical-product launches.

At Dyna Robotics, we build technology for the real world, which requires a team as diverse as the environments our robots inhabit. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to technical rigor and mutual respect.