gravisrobotics - Field Robotics Team Lead - UK
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Robotics, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience) • 5+ years of experience leading technical engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management • Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time, with strong organizational and prioritization skills across multiple parallel workstreams • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders including customers and executives • Hands-on experience with mobile robots, ideally in construction, agriculture, mining, or automotive sectors • Background in customer-facing technical project or program management • Experience working across distributed, international teams • Familiarity with autonomous systems, sensor integration, or field deployment of hardware/software stacks • Knowledge and experience in heavy civil construction • ## Location & Travel • This role is based in the UK. You should expect frequent travel to deployment sites, especially in the London-Manchester corridor, as you build the team, get hands-on exposure to real customer environments and use cases, and establish operations on the ground. • You will also spend several weeks at our headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, at the start of your tenure, working closely with our engineering, product, and operations teams to deeply understand our technology, processes, and culture before taking full ownership of the UK operation. • Don't meet every requirement? If you're enthusiastic about the role but your experience doesn't match every qualification, we still encourage you to apply. You may still be the perfect fit for another position - tell us about how you could accomplish your best at Gravis with a cover letter. • This is an opportunity to join a dynamic and versatile team, and to be part of a rapidly expanding startup that will revolutionize heavy construction.
Responsibilities
• Team Leadership (40%) • Hire, onboard, and grow a high-performing team of field robotics engineers in the UK • Set clear goals, provide ongoing mentorship, and support each team member's professional development • Build a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement • Deployment Ownership (40%) • Own end-to-end coordination and management of customer deployment, from scoping and planning through to live autonomous operations, enabling your team to execute on the ground • Define and continuously refine deployment processes, tooling, checklists, documentation and playbooks • Anticipate and resolve technical and operational risks before they become customer-facing issues • Customer and Stakeholder Engagement (20%) • Serve as the primary technical interface for UK customers, building trusted relationships and managing expectations across the project lifecycle • Translate customer feedback and operational insights into concrete product improvements • Collaborate with Gravis leadership to align domestic strategy with global priorities • Partner with the teams in Switzerland to ensure field realities inform product roadmap decisions • Champion a feedback loop between field operations and R&D so deployment learnings drive platform improvements
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