Robotics Lead

The Role

As our Robotics Lead, you are presented with a unique and exhilarating challenge: to lead and expand our Robotics Engineering team that is developing next-generation industrial robot arm control and vision-first manipulation algorithms. Your deep understanding of the technology stack will enable you to push the boundaries of product capabilities. Meanwhile, your experience in building and managing high-performance teams—especially in fast-scaling startups—will enable you to expand the Robotics team and increase its capacity while maintaining top-tier roadmap implementation efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Build and scale an agile, high-performing robotics team, leveraging your experience at fast-growing startups or high-growth established robotics companies.

• Translate high-level company vision and strategy into a well-defined technology and team growth roadmap, ensuring our robotics core remains robust, reliable, and serves as the backbone for all other product areas (Perception, Embodiment, etc.).

• Own risk management, development prioritization, and roadmap execution for the robotics domain, balancing quick iteration with sustainable long-term development.

• Work alongside tech leads to define the architecture and evolution of our robotics tech stack including robot control and planning in ROS 2; collision-free path planning and inverse kinematics; camera-based manipulation; simulation-to-reality pipelines using Isaac Sim; driver development; and higher-level robot behaviors.

• Cultivate a high-performance, high quality culture that values action, results, and continuous improvement while ensuring your team’s growth in both capacity and capability.

• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, especially with AI, mechanical, and electrical engineering teams, to build end-to-end robotic solutions that meet demanding performance and reliability requirements.

Who You Are

• An accomplished roboticist with 10+ years of leadership experience in robotics fields, including control theory, kinematics, real-time feedback loops, and robust industrial systems.

• A proven leader of teams of 15+ engineers, ideally in a high-growth startup environment or high-growth industrial robotics companies.

• Hands-on and deeply knowledgeable in robot control, simulation, vision, manipulation, path planning, and real-time system development.

• Expert in ROS 2, Python and C++, capable of writing clean, self-explanatory code that stands up in production environments.

• A mentor who inspires excellence, leveraging your leadership experience to attract, develop, and retain top talent.

• A clear communicator who can translate technical challenges into actionable plans and align diverse teams around common goals.

• Customer-focused, capable of distilling complex customer needs into practical product requirements.

• Passionate and driven by the transformative potential of intelligent robotic systems in manufacturing, always eager to learn and explore new frontiers.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with domain-specific libraries (e.g., OpenCV, MoveIt, BehaviorTree.CPP or Py Trees, ros2_control) and real-world production deployments.

• Expertise in calibration theory and vision-based robot calibration.

• Experience in both traditional machine vision and deep learning-based vision systems.

• Experience with Nvidia Omniverse and/or Isaac Sim for advanced simulation and testing.

• Track record of deploying robotics solutions in manufacturing at scale.

• Familiarity with the unique challenges of bringing next-generation robotics to market in high-growth environments.

Why Sunrise Robotics?

• Shape the future of intelligent robotics and manufacturing by establishing the core team, technology, and culture.

• Be part of a frontier company with a clear mission and vision, constantly pushing boundaries and innovating.

• Lead the design culture and set new industry standards for performance, reliability, and agility in robotics.

• Competitive compensation, including equity, in a collaborative work environment that values learning, excellence, and impact.

  Join us at Sunrise Robotics to redefine the manufacturing world with high-performance, intelligent robotics. If you have the drive to build something extraordinary from the ground up, we want to hear from you!