CTO — Robotics Systems & Fleet Orchestration

Energize Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Energize Group, a San Francisco robotics startup, is hiring its first Chief Technology Officer to own the technical architecture end-to-end and partner closely with the CEO. You’ll guide the hardware-software stack, scale a growing team, and push field deployment across multi-agent robotic systems.

Ideal candidates have hands-on ROS2 and C++ expertise, a track record in venture-backed startups, and comfort with investor conversations as part of leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting and shipping fleet orchestration or multi-agent systems.
• Technical leadership at a venture-backed startup, ideally scaling an engineering org through early stage growth.
• Deep systems thinking across distributed systems, real-time coordination, and fault-tolerant architecture; hardware-software integration.
• Strong hands-on credibility with ROS2, C++, and simulation/modeling tools; legged robotics experience a plus.
• Comfortable being the technical counterpart to a CEO, including investor/partner conversations.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture end to end and be the primary technical partner to the CEO.
• Lead and scale a small but growing engineering team toward production-grade reliability and field deployment.
• Drive hardware-software integration across robotics hardware, sensors, and software stack.
• Engage with investors and partners to communicate technical vision and progress.

Skills

Fleet orchestration

Multi-agent systems

Technical leadership

ROS2

C++

Hardware-software integration

Distributed systems

Startup experience

Investor relations

Tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Energize Group, a San Francisco robotics startup, is hiring its first Chief Technology Officer to own the technical architecture end-to-end and partner closely with the CEO. You’ll guide the hardware-software stack, scale a growing team, and push field deployment across multi-agent robotic systems.

Ideal candidates have hands-on ROS2 and C++ expertise, a track record in venture-backed startups, and comfort with investor conversations as part of leadership.