Dyna Robotics

Head of Engineering

Redwood City, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 36 days ago

Machine LearningCadenceSystems EngineeringRoboticsAR/VRResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the 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.
This is an on-site role based in Redwood City.
You will work closely with Dyna's founders, senior leadership team, ML Research, Hardware, Software, Operations, Product, and Deployment.

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.
Research-to-Deployment Loop: Partner with research, software, hardware, and operations so customer deployment feedback becomes actionable engineering and research priorities.
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.
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.

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.
This is not a pure technical architect role or a staff-plus IC role.

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.
Execution Ownership: Drive large, cross-functional initiatives from definition through field validation, launch, and post-deployment learning

JOIN US TO SHAPE THE NEXT FRONTIER OF AI-DRIVEN ROBOTICS!
Dyna Robotics makes general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model that generalizes and self-improves across varied environments with commercial-grade performance.
Dyna's robots have been deployed at customers across multiple industries.
Its frontier model has the top generalization and performance in the industry.
Dyna Robotics was founded by repeat founders Lindon Gao and York Yang, who sold Caper AI for $350 million, and former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma.
The company has raised over $140M, backed by top investors, including CRV and First Round.
We're positioned to redefine the landscape of robotic automation.
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.

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