Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

Monumental http://monumental.co/ is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction software-defined and autonomous - a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings go up in a single day, with minimal labour. We're a growing team of engineers, operators and technicians from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and Google DeepMind. It's still the early days of building the company, and this is a chance to make an outsized impact on a problem that matters https://www.monumental.co/why. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software. From day one, you'll work with an experienced founding team. Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company - you can't build robots or walls from home, so we're onsite five days a week. Read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction https://www.monumental.co/why, and learn about our vision https://www.monumental.co/our-vision and company https://www.monumental.co/about. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Q2F0Fcx4A, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOo8n19XEns. About the 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 behavior and performance of a robot, tuning kinematics, or scoping new features that interact with the messy real world of a construction site. We’ve 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 e