Head of Engineering

Dyna Robotics
Redwood City
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Execution","Ownership","Mentoring"]

Senior engineering leader responsible for building and leading a blended hardware-software-AI organization, aligning research, development, and deployment to turn breakthroughs into reliable customer deployments in a hands-on, on-site role based in Redwood City.

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Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics
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Head of Engineering

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Job Summary

Senior engineering leader responsible for building and leading a blended hardware-software-AI organization, aligning research, development, and deployment to turn breakthroughs into reliable customer deployments in a hands-on, on-site role based in Redwood City.
Location: Redwood City
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 350,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in hardware, software, robotics, or complex systems engineering, including 4+ years managing engineers and 1+ year managing managers.
Experience:RoboticsHardwareAI
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationExecutionOwnershipMentoring
Tech Stack:RoboticsAIMachine learningHardwareSoftware

Company Brief

Dyna Robotics
Develops embodied-AI powered robotic arms and foundation models (DYNA-1) to automate repetitive, stationary tasks across hotels, restaurants, laundromats and retail. Focuses on affordable, deployable robots that generalize across environments and improve with on‑device learning.
Industry: Robotics
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 500M to 1B
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Redwood City, United States
Founded: 2024
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