VP of Engineering

About the role

Dusty Robotics is transforming the construction industry through robotic automation. Its flagship product, the FieldPrint Platform, uses robots to trace digital building plans directly onto the jobsite floor at full scale, making construction more like paint‑by‑numbers. The company’s growing team, primarily based in the Bay Area, supports a fleet of robots deployed on construction sites across North America, and its customers include some of the largest general contractors in the world. Dusty sits at the intersection of robotics, hardware, AI, and SaaS, with hardware as a core differentiator. The Vice President of Engineering will lead and scale the engineering organization through the company’s next phase of growth, partnering closely with the CTO, Director of Product, and executive team to translate product and technology strategy into reliable execution across a multidisciplinary engineering organization spanning robotics, software, firmware, electrical, mechanical, cloud, AI, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization software, robotics, firmware, electrical, mechanical and own the roadmap, delivery cadence, and execution
• Shape the architecture of Dusty’s new cloud and AI products alongside the CTO and Director of Product
• Drive how engineering adopts AI: how we design, write, review, test, and document, and the standards that come with it
• Deliver Dusty's next generation of hardware systems engineered to perform reliably day after day on active job sites
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering leaders, and give strong engineers the ownership to do their best work
• Partner with Product, Operations, Manufacturing, Customer Success, and Sales to launch and support what customers depend on
• Serve on the executive team, connecting engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations that are heavy in software and have robotics or hardware-enabled products, including managing managers
• Deep software background with the ability to own architecture for cloud and AI-enabled products
• Credibility with both hardware and software teams, and experience taking hardware products into commercial deployment
• Practical fluency with AI tooling and AI-built products, and judgment about how to best incorporate them into the engineering workflow
• A track record delivering complex products and programs against real milestones
• Judgment about the right level of process for a company our size, and a bias toward building on what already works
• A record of hiring exceptional engineers and developing leaders
• Clear communication with engineers, executives, and customers, and a strong product and customer mindset

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 401(k) with employer match
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Flexible work schedules
• A collaborative and mission-driven team environment