Hardware Engineer, Manufacturing

Monumental

Monumental 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. From day one, you’ll be working with an experienced founding team, backed by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural. Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software, 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, and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like. About the role Monumental are automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Atrium, our operating system for construction, lets us do everything from building walls with our robots, to designing buildings, managing our robot fleet, analyzing data, and much more. Our stack is broad by necessity: we use Rust for many things from robot middleware to back-end services, TypeScript across our web app and internal tools, and NixOS to manage our servers as well as the computers in our robots. As we're deploying more robots and software, we're always running into new challenges. The problems are often not straightforward: poor connectivity on a construction site because of interference, a memory leak that only becomes an issue after hours of runtime, a robot behaving differently than the simulation. This means a lot of creative problem solving is involved. One of our engineers even traced down a problem to a memory leak in Chrome, which got fixed soon after he submitted a bug report. Additionally, because we're scaling our operations, the scope of our software also keeps growing. We're now building internal apps for scheduling robot operators, planning site logistics and maintenance, and improving manufacturing. To make these applications possible, we need well-architected software and reliable software infrastructure. To help us build, improve, and maintain our platform, we're looking for a strong generalist software engineer. Full stack at Monumental is really full stack, from the firmware for our robot's actuators to our in-house document database. You'll get a lot of autonomy and the chance to build software that builds actual robots and houses. You’ll also get the chance to collaborate with other engineering disciplines (e.g. electrical, mechanical) to support new robot features or debug issues. For more on how we think about the role, read Bouke’s post on his experience joining Monumental as a software engineer. What you'll do * Shipping features across the full stack from robot firmware and Rust services up through the web UI, touching multiple layers. * Hardening production systems by tracking down subtle bugs like memory leaks, network backpressure issues, or race conditions that only show up in real deployments. * Owning our infrastructure end-to-end (bare-metal servers, NixOS configs, deploy tooling, …) so that shipping changes to a robot on-site or a service is fast and reliable. * Building observability across our entire fleet so when something goes wrong on a robot or a service, the team immediately knows where to look and why. * Building tools that multiply the whole team's effectiveness such as debugging tools, data visualization tools, or a platform that allows non-technical people to create their own apps. * Improving our data infrastructure, from our in-house typed document database to ClickHouse. What we’re looking for * Industry experience building and deploying production systems in multiple languages (Rust experience is valuable but not required) * A strong sense of ownership and motivation. You’re able to drive problems and projects start-to-finish without someone project managing you, and can thrive in a chaotic environment. * Familiarity with Linux systems and conventions. E.g., you’re comfortable SSH’ing into other machines to figure out why something isn't working. * Knowledge of common communication protocols, e.g. UDP, TCP and WebSockets * Strong CS or mathematics foundation. Understanding basic linear algebra and 3D transformations is a strong plus. * A high percentage of our software team have been a technical founder, CTO, or founding engineer before. If that’s your background, you’ll likely fit in. But we also get excited by people with a demonstrated background of shipping impressive work at any type of company. 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 you're 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 don’t see an exact role match), please reach out to us at: iwanttojoin@monumental.co - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you’ve worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio.   Unfortunately we do not currently support internships.   If you don’t meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel you’d 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.

Monumental

Monumental 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. From day one, you’ll be working with an experienced founding team, backed by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural. Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software, 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, and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like. About the role At Monumental we’re automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Atrium, our operating system for construction, lets us do everything from designing the 3D structures we'll build, to managing our robot fleet, planning operations, and analyzing data. As we scale our operations and manufacture, deploy, and maintain more robots, the scope of our software keeps growing. We're now building internal apps for scheduling robot operators, planning site logistics and maintenance, and improving manufacturing. We're looking for a product engineer to help us build more and better internal tools, and to move manual processes into software. We call it product engineering because you won't just be handed requirements. You'll talk to the people who'll use what you build (your colleagues), work out what's actually worth building, implement it, deploy it, and check whether it helped. If you enjoy building software products start to finish on your own, this role is a good fit. You'll get a lot of autonomy and the chance to build software that builds actual robots and houses. For more on how we think about the role, read Tobias’ post on why now is a great time to be a product engineer at Monumental. What you'll do * Taking a problem from a colleague and understanding it, building a prototype, getting it in their hands, and iterating on the solution - often all in the same day. * Designing and building tools to manage a growing fleet of robots spread across multiple sites. * Extending Fenestra, our Notion-like internal tool for viewing and editing data from different sources. * Helping bring prototypes from the ops and manufacturing teams to production, cleaning up the data model and code along the way. * Working with hardware engineers, control engineers, and robot operators to find the best product experience for genuinely hard problems. * Writing clean, idiomatic, typed production TypeScript and React. We also use Rust in places. * Debugging memory leaks, crashes, and other problems, often by digging into the root cause yourself. * Deploying and maintaining new backend services your tools need. What we’re looking for * You've built full-featured web apps in idiomatic TypeScript and shipped them. React experience is a plus. * Proven experience in building products in a zero-to-one environment, on your own or in a small team. This can be a side-project you’ve worked on, an indie app, or some other project you can show us. * An eye for good design, both UI and UX. * A strong sense of ownership. You can drive a project from start to finish without anyone managing you, and you're comfortable when things are chaotic. * You use coding agents to ship faster and unblock yourself but take full ownership of the features you build with AI. * You pick up new languages and tools quickly. Rust experience is a plus. * Basic familiarity with Linux systems. E.g., you’re comfortable ssh’ing into other machines to figure out why something isn't working. 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 you're 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 don’t see an exact role match), please reach out to us at: iwanttojoin@monumental.co - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you’ve worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio.   Unfortunately we do not currently support internships.   If you don’t meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel you’d 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.

Monumental

Monumental 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. From day one, you’ll be working with an experienced founding team, backed by a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and Plural. Monumental is based in the city centre of Amsterdam, in a beautiful facility with an fully equipped workshop and robot testing floor. We build the whole stack in-house - hardware and software, 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, and learn about our vision and company. You might enjoy Based in Europe’s film on how we’re fixing Europe’s housing shortage, or this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office looks like. About the role We're building robots to bring automation to construction, making affordable, beautiful, high-quality housing possible at scale. We're looking for a mechatronics engineer who's a maker at heart, with a bias for speed and simplicity, who can design a robot on paper and build one in real life. In this role, you'll own entire mechatronic systems from idea through to production. You'll be involved in every stage of the engineering process: scoping broad, novel capabilities, running back-of-envelope calculations, and driving hardware design through prototyping, testing, and validation. This includes actuator and sensor selection, system integration and firmware development. You'll debug hardware issues both at our office and onsite, test on live construction sites, and iterate toward robust, scalable designs. Once you've proven you can own tightly scoped projects, you'll lead broader problem spaces with a small multidisciplinary team. The challenges are real: full on-site autonomy, construction-scale payloads, reliable operation at height, and millimetre-level positioning across our stack. We want people genuinely excited to tackle these alongside a capable, supportive team. Our approach focuses on identifying key risks and attacking them through rapid prototyping, not lengthy design cycles. You'll have high autonomy and minimal drag: few meetings, no unnecessary approvals. What you'll do Imagine a fleet of autonomous robots rolling onto a construction site in the morning and by sundown, a fully built, beautiful home stands ready for a family to move in. That’s the future we’re building. Today, our robot systems are already constructing real homes across the Netherlands at scale. But we’re just getting started. Your work won’t be about incremental improvements, you’ll tackle broad and novel problems that unlock autonomous construction: * Pushing toward full robot autonomy for our masonry systems: automated wall-anchor installation and mortar pointing to produce beautiful brickwork. Autonomous lift platforms and fully automated material-supply enabling our fleet to work uninterrupted across large, messy sites. As our robot’s capabilities expand, you’ll also think through the safety implications and design appropriate mitigations. * Designing for extreme reliability: our robots need to be tough enough to survive months of harsh construction conditions, yet serviceable and redeployable in under 24 hours. * Building next-gen hardware to expand what our robots can do: higher-precision brick placement, larger payloads, expanded build envelopes, hot-swappable end effectors, and operation in tight, constrained spaces like scaffolding. * Getting hands-on in the field: you’ll join deployments where we’re building real homes, whilst stress-testing systems and uncovering the edge-case problems that can only be found in the field. This will help you determine new critical features to unlock and learn what our product needs long-term. What we’re looking for * Someone who can design hardware from scratch. * You’re comfortable working at the interface between mechanical, software, controls, and vision engineering. You won't be expected to develop control systems or vision algorithms, but you should be able to collaborate effectively to ship complete projects. * Experience developing proof-of-concept prototypes in the shortest amount of time. * Source all required components; * Fabricate the necessary parts in-house whether 3D printed, CNC-milled or turned. * Integrating and validating actuators and electronics: microcontrollers, sensors, motors, solenoids, encoders, and related hardware * Writing or adapting simple embedded code (Arduino, ESP32, etc.) to bring up electronics, run basic tests, and verify mechanisms While you'll have support from our in-house electronics experts to productise successful concepts, we're looking for someone who's confident building quick, scrappy prototypes more-or-less independently. You won't need to design production-ready PCBs yourself, but you should be able to understand system requirements and translate them into clear briefs for our electronics engineers to develop. * Experience going from prototype to production. * Handing over validated prototypes to our production team, providing the context they need to scale and optimise for manufacturing. * Collaborating with electronics engineers to communicate system requirements and ensure designs are robust and scalable. * Producing clean CAD in Onshape following best practices, ready for others to refine for production. * Creating first drafts of technical drawings, documentation, and other artefacts that the production team can develop into full production packages. * Bonus: experience in early-stage startups or top student team competitions. * B.Sc. in electrical, mechatronics, or robotics engineering or equivalent experience. 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 you're 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 don’t see an exact role match), please reach out to us at: iwanttojoin@monumental.co - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you’ve worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. Unfortunately we do not currently support internships. If you don’t meet all the qualifications here but are excited about Monumental and feel you’d 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.