Mobile Robotics Lead

At Scythe, we're bringing an industry-leading autonomous battery-powered mower to market that runs on a powerful single-board computer with a custom software stack running everything from sensor interaction, to autonomy, to the cloud, and user interactions. The Mobile Robotics Lead is the ideal position for someone who has extensive experience as a software developer and finding solutions to real world problems, and can use their experiences to manage the functional requirements to achieve success for the mobile robotics team. This team is responsible for safe, reliable, and efficient operations of an autonomous mower. The fields of focus for the mobile robotics team are perception, localization, motion planning, and controls.

We expect you to be broadly experienced to be able to “see around corners”, to thrive in a fast-paced, self-managed engineering environment, and to be a collaborative, low-ego teammate who helps Scythe realize its big mission.

What you’ll do at Scythe  

The key jobs for this role include:

• Hiring: the full loop from identifying gaps in our talent, determining a viable path forward with leadership and/or finance, generating job descriptions, interviewing and bringing in interviewers, and making informed hiring decisions.
• Engagement of Team: maintaining regular meetings with each team member to ensure they have a reasonable workload and the support they need to be successful.
• Mentorship: you'll play a crucial role in guiding and developing engineers to reach their full potential, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their professional goals.
• Best Practices: encourage learning and enforcement of high-quality coding standards, with a heavy focus on maintaining low computational cost.

It's also important to highlight that this is not a project manager role. The focus is instead to acquire and most efficiently utilize a talented team for long-run success. You must be a people person.

What you know well

• Managed teams of 10 with a mix of senior and junior engineers on real-world products.
• Represented an engineering team in a company alongside non-engineering teams.
• Skilled at identifying hires with strong potential or critical flaws.
• Proficiency in software development in a complex language environment. Including testing, analytics, and software quality processes.
• This is an advanced team. Mathematical concepts such as geometry, linear algebra, graph theory, probability theory, and statistics are needed to communicate with team members.

What you’ve maybe done

• Wrote software that ran in real-time on mobile robots (e.g. perception, localization, motion planning/controls)
• Worked with ROS and its communication scheme and/or modern networked systems
• Have familiarity with databases like SQLite
• Ensured other professionals were following coding/version control standards

Why Scythe?

• Scythe is an early-stage but well-capitalized startup. Have a huge impact alongside an awesome team of experts shipping something the world has never before seen
• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• Fully-sponsored medical, vision, and dental insurance, including 75% funded dependent coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching today)
• Headquarters near beautiful Boulder, CO. Enjoy the bounties of nature and open spaces close to home with mountain biking, hiking, skiing and more.
• Satellite offices in Austin, TX, and Vero Beach, FL 
• Flexible paid time-off and remote work to let you do your best work where and when you want
• Highly collaborative learning culture where personal freedom, growth, and responsibility are valued
• An opportunity to have an incredibly positive impact on the world

Closing

Scythe is a total compensation company, which provides employees with a comprehensive salary, equity, and benefit package. However, only the minimum salary amounts are listed here. Scythe carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including education, years of experience, competencies and other relevant business considerations. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary along with your compensation mode preferences. The Mobile Robotics Lead position has an expected minimum annual cash salary of $160,000. The actual pay may be higher depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience. Equity and benefits packages are NOT included in this estimate. Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Colorado only, and this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado as well.

Scythe is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.