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About the Role
TAR builds construction robots for solar racking installation at gigawatt campus scale. As VP of Autonomy, you will own the autonomy software organization, including perception, planning, and controls. You will guide autonomy from early development through field deployment, establish technical direction and system architecture, and lead a team of engineers and managers. This leadership role is based in San Francisco with field time in West Texas.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the autonomy software strategy and technical roadmap, aligning engineering priorities with construction schedules and the company's mission.
- Build and lead the autonomy software organization, including hiring, structuring, and developing team members.
- Own system architecture across autonomy, perception, planning, and controls, making design choices suitable for real-world operating conditions.
- Drive the software development lifecycle from roadmap and prioritization through release, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with hardware and manufacturing leadership for co-development of autonomy software and robots.
- Serve as the senior autonomy voice on the leadership team, influencing investment decisions, roadmap trade-offs, and deployment timing.
- Represent autonomy externally to customers, partners, and investors.
- Establish field-feedback loops to integrate lessons from deployed robots into the software roadmap and architecture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years leading a software organization at the Director, Head of, or VP level.
- Hands-on track record building and scaling a software team from an early stage, including setting technical direction, engineering process, and hiring.
- Demonstrated ownership of software or autonomy for a robotics system in production or field deployment.
- Deep expertise in autonomous systems software: perception, planning, controls, or a closely related discipline.
- Strong communication skills, comfortable representing technical decisions to executive leadership, customers, and investors.
- Experience with autonomy for energy, industrial, or infrastructure robotics.
- Track record partnering closely with hardware teams on tightly coupled hardware, software, and autonomy systems.
- Background in a high-growth, venture-backed robotics or hardware startup.
- Experience standing up an autonomy software organization from zero to one.
Skills
- Autonomy software
- Perception
- Planning
- Controls
- Robotics software
- Software engineering
- Team leadership
- System architecture
- Hardware-software integration
Location
- San Francisco
- West Texas
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Director
- Head of
- VP
Benefits
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- $1K monthly stipend for meals
About the Company
- TAR is building the world’s first off-grid power plants for data centers using renewable technologies.
- We are vertically integrating to solve bottlenecks in power generation and deployment.
- TAR is both a hardware and software company, developing critical physical infrastructure.
- We are working with a major compute provider to deploy 5GWs by 2028.
- Our operating principles include high ownership, high agency, speed, first principles thinking, and passion for solving the energy problem.