The People

Founders with Deep Domain Experience

The Terran Robotics founding team combines 40+ years of construction, robotics, and AI experience. Every member has built and shipped hardware at scale before.

Core Team

Leadership

Zach Dwiel

Zach Dwiel

CEO & Co-Founder

Previously VP of Field Operations at Pulte Homes, where he oversaw the delivery of 2,400 single-family units annually across 14 markets. Before that, Zach spent 8 years at Caterpillar's autonomous machine division, leading the commercial launch of the first autonomous grading system certified for residential site work. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University.

David Chen

David Chen

CTO & Co-Founder

David led the perception and motion-planning teams at Boston Dynamics for 6 years before co-founding Terran. He designed the SLAM-based navigation stack used in Spot's commercial inspection deployments and holds 12 patents in robotic kinematics and sensor fusion. He has a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

Marcus Webb

Marcus Webb

VP Engineering

Marcus was Director of Hardware Engineering at Nuro, where he shipped 3 generations of autonomous delivery vehicles from prototype to production volumes of 800 units per year. At Terran, he owns the robot hardware stack - mechanical, electrical, and firmware. He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in California and Arizona.

Working at Terran

A Team Built for Hard Problems

We are a small team with large ambitions. Every person at Terran has direct impact on the product and the mission. We hire people who have shipped hardware before and who are uncomfortable with slow.

34 Full-time team members
11 Active patents filed
7 Active job sites
2021 Founded in Boulder, CO

How We Work

We operate in 6-week build cycles tied directly to construction site milestones. Every feature goes through a field test at one of our active sites before it ships to customers. We don't ship software we haven't used on real dirt.

We are a hybrid team: hardware engineers are on-site in Boulder; software and AI teams work in a mix of Boulder and remote. All hands meet in person quarterly for a 3-day build sprint where every team - hardware, software, AI, operations - works on the same site together.

What We Look For

We hire people who have shipped before - whether that's a production robot, a deployed API, or a 200-unit residential project. We don't care about pedigree. We care about what you've gotten out the door and what you learned doing it.

If you've worked on autonomous systems, construction technology, or large-scale infrastructure software and want to work on a problem that matters, reach out to us at contact@terranrobotics.org.

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