Head of Engineering
Nevados
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oakland • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the final technical authority on product design, performance, and engineering standards
- Lead design reviews, ensuring rigor, cross-functional alignment, and timely decision-making
- Own system-level integration across mechanical, structural, electrical, and software components
- Optimize engineering team structure to improve speed, clarity, and accountability
- Evolve the engineering organization and team structure to support clarity, alignment, and effective execution as the company scales
- Serve as a mentor and partner to engineering leaders, supporting their continued growth in leadership, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration
- Guide leaders in prioritization, resource planning, and team development within a resource-conscious environment
- Drive product strategy and roadmap to amplify market competitiveness
- Drive cost reduction initiatives across the product portfolio
- Implement a design sprint approach to accelerate development cycles and time-to-market
- Ensure strong alignment between engineering, product, and commercial priorities
- Provide quantitative, informative and frequent department and product development reporting
- Institute rapid and lean design methods with an AI-forward mindset
- Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in data, testing, and real-world conditions
- Oversee design for manufacturing (DFM) to ensure products are scalable, cost-effective, and production-ready
- Partner with operations and supply chain to accelerate product launches
- Support fundraising efforts by articulating technical strategy, product roadmap, and differentiation to investors and stakeholders
Requirements
- 15+ years of engineering experience, with deep expertise in mechanical, structural, and/or systems engineering
- Proven track record as a technical lead or Chief Engineer/Head of Engineering on complex hardware systems from concept through commercialization
- Demonstrated ability to act as a final decision-maker on critical technical tradeoffs
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams (mechanical, structural, electrical, software, embedded systems)
- Strong background in system-level design, reliability, and performance optimization
- Proven success driving cost reduction, DFM, and scalable product development
- Experience integrating testing and validation (e.g., wind tunnel or similar studies) into product design
- Solar, solar tracker, or adjacent renewable/infrastructure experience strongly preferred
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage executive leadership and external stakeholders
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- long term disability and vol life
- 401(k) participation
- unlimited PTO
- generous sick leave
- paid company holidays
- additional benefit offerings as we continue to grow
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
mechanical engineeringstructural engineeringsystems engineeringdesign for manufacturing (DFM)cost reductionsystem-level designreliability optimizationperformance optimizationtesting and validationembedded systems
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingcross-functional collaborationmentoringresource planningteam developmentdecision-makingcommunicationalignmentaccountability