Technical Lead, Full Stack Development

Summary

Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, GrayMatter Robotics is a well-capitalized AI robotics startup serving the manufacturing industry.  We empower shop floor workers with our smart robots that assist with tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks, specifically in automated surface finishing. Our proprietary GMR-AI™ software is integrated with state-of-the-art industrial robots, sensors, and tools to create application-specific turnkey solutions for customers through a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. We help manufacturers improve the quality of life for their workforce while increasing production capacity and reducing scrap, repair, and rework costs. As a Technical Lead, Full-Stack Development, you will take on a hybrid role that combines individual contributions to development efforts with leadership responsibilities, including guiding and mentoring the software team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and innovation.
• Design, improve, and extend APIs for GrayMatter Robotics’ on-premise and cloud-based applications.
• Build and maintain a customer-facing, performant front-end application to configure and run automated surface finishing applications and visualize critical data necessary to understand the robot and its environment’s state.
• Create and optimize systems for synchronizing data between on-premise and cloud-based systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deeply understand customers’ needs and deliver a reliable, seamless user experience.
• Build internal-facing front-end applications to support the efficiency of internal teams.
• Stay current with the latest technologies in modern full-stack development and make recommendations for integrating them into the team’s toolkit.
• Take ownership of large-scale projects, from initial concept to delivery, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in software development or similar/equivalent industry experience.
• Proven experience managing and mentoring engineering teams, including performance reviews, career development, and hiring.
• Experience designing, launching, and versioning APIs
• Experience with Python and AWS tooling
• Experience in frontend development with TypeScript, JS, Node.js, react, or similar
• Demonstrated experience creating production or live web applications
• Experience interfacing with RESTful APIs, CORS and modern authentication systems such as web tokens
• Experience with frontend development tools such as NPM and NextJS
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across multiple engineering teams and able to articulate technical design decisions
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment with quickly changing priorities
• Must secure work authorization in the United States and maintain ongoing work authorization beginning at the time of hire through the entirety of employment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading mission-critical, large-scale software projects
• Experience leading teams and/or mentoring junior developers
• Proven track record of proactively starting large, mission-critical projects
• Experience working with webRTC and websockets
• Experience building visualization tools for robots or visualizing 3D data and building performant applications using hardware acceleration
• Experience with ROS and ROS 2 and robotic/automation systems
• Experience with modern deployment tools including docker
• Experience with testing frameworks for front-end applications
• Deep focus on quality and design of products

You can stand out with a portfolio of previous projects and Github account demonstrating your contributions. Especially open-source project contributions and demonstrated participation in open-source.

GrayMatter Robotics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage and embrace applicants of all backgrounds to apply!

GrayMatter Robotics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodations during the recruiting process, please contact accommodations@graymatter-robotics.com to submit your request.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Compensation for this position includes the base salary range of $170,000- $200,000 USD plus equity. We also provide comprehensive benefits and perks which include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, 401(k) plan + employer match, regular offsite events, a discretionary fund for enhancing productivity and so much more!