Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer
Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer
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Were a growing team (about 70 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians coming from companies like Palantir Qualcomm Dyson Shopify Tesla 1X and Meta. Its still the early days of building the company and this is a unique opportunity to be an early employee in a high-growth high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1 youll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors.
You can read more on why we believeyou should spend your time working on construction and learn more aboutour visionandcompany.
About you and this role
The typical startup advice to become an effective engineer is go spend time with your users. Our version of this is go spend time with our robots in their natural habitat the construction site.
It turns out to be very hard to sit in an office behind a desk and improve the behaviour and performance of a robot tuning kinematics or scoping new features that interact with the messy real world of a construction site. Weve found that the most effective way of doing this is being with the robot and being in a position where you can fix it yourself instead of asking another engineer to do it for you.
This is a unique and new role on the intersection of engineering product and operations. We consider it a key role that will have an outsized impact on our business. Its definitely not going to be for everyone: youll be wearing hard hats and hard-toe boots most of your days. Youre going to be running our robots sometimes in our test environments in the office and many times outside on construction sites.
We dont expect you to have prior experience with robotics. Our ideal candidate has excellent problem-solving and debugging skills combines technical skills with creativity and can deal with high-stress environments when things fail. Youre a strong engineer but above all obsessed with driving good outcomes.
If youre done with doing yet another SaaS job this is a unique opportunity to bring yourself back into the real world: youll learn how buildings get built how robots work and be at the cutting edge of applied robotics. If this sounds interesting you should read about Alfreds experience joining us as an intern and becoming our first forward deployed robot engineer.
Help us bring our robots to life and join our mission to bring automation to the construction industry to create affordable beautiful high-quality housing for everyone. If youre new to robotics you might enjoyreading Boukes blog post on his experience joining Monumental as a software engineer. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like.
What youll be working on
As a starting point youll be comfortable building walls with our robots similar to our Construction Robot Operators
Invariably well encounter many problems on each new construction sites: the topology of the site specific things that need to be built or edge cases that we havent dealt with before. Its your primary responsibility to identify those issues and to own solving that start-to-finish: coming up with a solution writing the code to fix it and deploying and testing it on the robot again. We do this in fast iteration cycles of hours and days not weeks
In addition you will likely take on building and testing new bleeding edge featuresthey might speed up our robots allow us to drive into tighter spaces or building something robots have never built before
Debugging failures that happen on-site: part of this is typical software debugging but youll also learn how to identify issues through the entire stack including electronics and mechanical issues
Taking broader notes on things youre seeing on the construction site and with our robots that you cant take on immediately or yourself. 10-20% of this job is a bit like being a product manager identifying new projects and opportunities that can be discussed with the wider team
Being the face and ambassador of the company on a construction site. Our robots dont talk so people will typically chat to you if they see you next to a robot.
What were looking for
Ability to code: we dont care if youre self-taught went through a coding academy or have a . or PhD in Computer Science. You need to be able to solve complex engineering problems with code and have at least 2 years of experience doing this professionally
We dont expect any prior experience with robotics but being comfortable with basic mathematics (e.g. linear algebra) and reasoning geometrically is a strong plus
Youre always able to keep the outcome in mind without the tendency to over-engineer solutions
You are excellent at debugging and decomposing problems. Our stack is very deep given that things can fail both in hardware and software and you can logically reason through various failure modes
You love getting your hands dirty and dont want to sit behind a computer all-day. You will frequently wake up early to drive to a construction site on-time and enjoy being in that context. You dont need to have any experience on a construction site though
Youre fluent in English (spoken and written). Being verbally fluent in Dutch is a plus on a construction site but not a requirement.
Why Monumental
Joining Monumental means being at the forefront of a movement aimed at making significant strides in the construction industry. Here your work has the potential to impact not just the company but the future of how we build. If youre driven by innovation eager to tackle complex challenges and ready to make a tangible difference we want to hear from you.
For open applications (where you dont see an exact role match) please reach out to us at: - share with us the most interesting or challenging project youve worked on why you want to join and your CV or portfolio.
If you dont meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel youd still be able to help us solve difficult problems do get in touch. We welcome generalists who focus on outcomes and are eager to learn on the job.
Employment Type
Full-Time
