ENGINEERING & ROBOTICS ROLES IN SOLAR PROJECT DELIVERY — PLANTED SOLAR (OAKLAND, CA)

Various positions | Planted Solar | Oakland, CA

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Solution Engineer

As the Solution Engineer, you will focus on early customer engagement and strategy, proposal development, project optimization, and growing our pipeline of solar power applications. You will own critical pieces of our early-stage project engineering and business development process and apply your knowledge of Planted’s technology, the energy market, and solar development and construction to support customers.

Successful candidates will possess strong leadership and communication skills, financial and technical acumen in the energy sector, and a desire to be part of a growing, early-stage company. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with a talented, cross-functional engineering and business team in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Salary Range: The salary range for this full-time position is $90,000–$110,000, plus stock options and benefits. Pay within the range is based on candidate experience, job-specific skills, education, and work location. Target Experience: The target experience for the position is 2+ years.

Robot Software Engineer (Platform and Backend)

As a key member of our Robot Software team, you will design, build, and operate the backbone that keeps our robot fleet online, secure, and productive, owning backend services and APIs for telemetry, data ingest, command and control, and user workflows while bringing up compute with operating systems, drivers, firmware, and device configuration, and creating fleet scale CI/CD that produces reproducible edge images and cloud releases. You will run deployments end to end with safe over the air updates, staged rollouts, health checks, automated rollback, and device configuration while operating and securing cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, private connectivity, and secrets. You are a platform generalist who moves smoothly between Python services, device provisioning, infrastructure automation, and incident response, and you jump into the highest priority gaps to ship outcomes quickly and safely.

This position offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with a highly skilled cross-functional engineering team, taking ownership of projects from ideation to implementation to enhance the usability and reliability of our robotic systems in challenging real-world environments.

Salary Range: The salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 – $175,000 plus stock options and benefits. Pay within the range is based on candidate experience, job-specific skills, education, and work location. Target Experience: The target experience for the position is 3 – 7+ years.

Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls and Systems

As a member of the Robot Hardware & Systems team, this role will play a key part in the development of the next generation of our autonomous solar-installation robots. Responsibilities will include developing control algorithms, integrating sensors, and implementing real-time robotic software. This is a hands-on, high impact role! The ideal candidate should be ready to own a project from ideation to implementation: not-only designing solutions, but also participating in the real world testing and analysis of the results.

Salary Range: The salary range for this full-time position is $145,000 – $195,000 plus stock and benefits. Pay within the range is based on candidate experience, job-specific skills, education, and work location. Target Experience: The target experience for the position is 4-8 years.