Head of Engineering

Company Description

Verustruct is developing a suite of robotic construction technologies to automate the building of affordable, sustainable, safe, and aesthetically appealing housing. The company’s mission is to help close the U.S. housing gap of 4.5 million homes by transforming how residential structures are designed and built. Verustruct focuses on integrating advanced robotics, automation, and novel construction methods into practical, scalable solutions. Team members collaborate across disciplines to bring next-generation construction systems from concept to field deployment, with a strong emphasis on real-world impact and long-term sustainability.

About the Role

Lead the engineering team turning robotic construction into a dependable way to build homes and other critical structures around the world.

Verustruct is hiring a Head of Engineering to lead technical execution across mechanical, electrical, robotics, software, materials, structural, and manufacturing engineering. Working directly with the Founder & CEO, you will translate company priorities into an integrated development program and guide our systems from full-scale prototypes toward repeatable field deployment.

You will serve as both an organizational leader and a hands-on member of technical staff. You will help resolve difficult architecture and integration problems, lead consequential design reviews, work alongside engineers during builds and tests, and develop a team capable of taking increasing technical ownership.

The central challenge is making the complete construction system work: coordinating machine motion, concrete behavior, structural requirements, utilities integration, manufacturing, and field operations within a practical cost and schedule.

This is a full-time, on-site leadership position in Torrance, California, with involvement in testing and field deployment. A strong candidate will have deep engineering experience and be able to contribute to engineering objectives on the ground while also setting long-term technical directives.

What You'll Do

• Own the integrated engineering roadmap, technical milestones, and execution plan for Verustruct’s robotic construction platform.
• Translate product and deployment goals into measurable system requirements, subsystem interfaces, engineering priorities, and verification criteria.
• Lead architecture and trade studies across disciplines, balancing performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, cost, serviceability, and development speed.
• Establish clear technical ownership and decision-making across teams and resolve dependencies before they become integration bottlenecks.
• Remain directly involved in critical design work, technical reviews, experiments, and failure investigations.
• Build an integration and test strategy that connects component validation, subsystem testing, complete-machine operation, and construction-site performance.
• Coordinate robotics development with materials processing, structural engineering, and construction requirements so the machine and the building system develop together.
• Identify the highest-risk assumptions and organize focused analysis, prototypes, and tests to resolve them early.
• Lead engineering planning and resource allocation, communicate schedule and technical risks clearly, and make explicit tradeoffs as priorities evolve.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage engineers and technical leads; provide direct feedback and establish a high standard for technical judgment and execution.
• Develop practical standards for design reviews, configuration control, documentation, release readiness, and engineering changes.
• Partner with manufacturing, suppliers, and field teams to turn successful prototypes into equipment that can be built, operated,…