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Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 70 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, 1X and Meta. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. About you and this role We are looking for an assembly & prototyping technician to join our team. You'll be part of our machine shop team, and working closely with our hardware and software engineering team. 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. This role is a generalist technician role in a small startup environment with a lot of variety. You will be responsible for building prototypes and small production series of our construction robot hardware, including our autonomous ground vehicles, construction cranes, supply systems, and end effectors. You will also be helping out with the maintenance of our existing fleet of robots. On a non-technical level, we are looking for someone who loves nothing more than working in a highly collaborative team to solve complex problems and bring novel inventions to the world. You'd thrive in a fast-paced environment, be excited to continuously learn new skills, and love challenging conventional ideas. After doing an assembly, you actively ask yourself how you could do it 10 times faster if you had to do it over again. We are unable to support relocation or sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands, eligible to work and able to commute onsite to Amsterdam to be considered. What you'll be working on * Fabrication and assembly of R&D prototypes-this could be anything from a new end-effectors we're testing, an autonomous ground vehicle that can traverse rough construction site, or an entire robotic crane. * Maintaining our current fleet of robots: doing occasional health checks on them and ensuring that they are always in great state and ready to be used on site. * Help us run our construction robots and build testing rigs in the office, and occasionally join us and the robots on construction sites to help with whatever is needed. * Help us improve our designs to small series production: planning and organizing a build, feeding back DFM and DFA changes to the engineering team, and assembling the robots. * Promoting and maintaining a safe, clean, and organized working environment. What we're looking for * You must feel comfortable in sequencing and building assemblies without a large amount of instructions and documentation. * You take an efficient and organized approach to assembly projects. * Hands on experience assembling parts. We don't expect any complex machining experience, but you should feel comfortable working with metals and metal tools, e.g. an angle grinder. * Determine with the engineering team what checks are required to ensure the assembly is correct and carry them out. * High attention to detail. You should be able to do quality spot checks and spot mistakes in your own and your peers' work. * You understand the importance of following procedures when relevant, e.g. bolt selection and tightening torques. * Being able to read a bill of materials, organize and collect parts and off the shelf components. * Strong communication skills. You are able to sit down with an engineer, look at a design together and discuss how to approach a new build while feeding back improvements to them after finishing a project. 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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 are open to generalists with a demonstrated ability to focus on outcomes and get things done and are comfortable with you learning things as you go along.

Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 80 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like. About you and this role We're looking for a software engineer who wants to build software that can touch the physical world, not another SaaS product. You'll develop and deploy software that controls fleets of autonomous construction robots. Our software stack is very broad, covering everything from microcontroller firmware up to the UI that operators use to control the robots. We've built CAD tools for designing masonry structures, path planning and motion control, telemetry and inspection tools, and distributed data storage and sync. The technical challenges we're solving combine hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale - while maintaining high availability on construction sites. Atrium, our operating system for construction, is built with TypeScript and Rust. Much of our Rust code is compiled to WebAssembly, allowing our UI to interface directly with the same control code that we deploy to our robots. This gives us a shared stack between real-world deployments and simulated runs in the front-end. 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 you're new to robotics, you might enjoy reading Bouke's 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 you'll be responsible for * Designing the core architecture of our platform, and choosing the right abstractions to map the messy world of construction into elegant software * Working collaboratively with our team of hardware engineers, control engineers, and robot operators to improve the reliability and performance of our platform * Building tools and dashboards to manage and monitor a growing, distributed fleet of robots across multiple construction sites * Debugging complex issues that cut across the stack, from WiFi connection issues with robot systems to race conditions in concurrent Rust code What we're looking for * Industry experience building and deploying production systems in multiple languages (Rust experience is valuable but not required) * Basic 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/IP and WebSockets * 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. * 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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 is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 80 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like. About you and this role We are looking for a mechanical engineer to join our team of hardware and software engineers, trying to bring robots and automation to the construction industry to create affordable, beautiful, high quality housing for everyone. You are a maker, who enjoys building physical things from start to finish, with a bias for speed and simplicity. You enjoy being involved in and contributing to the entire engineering process: asking the right questions to scope a problem, doing back of the envelope calculations, fabricating parts in our workshop, testing your design live on a construction site and iterating on it to produce a robust and scalable design. Once you've shown you can own tightly scoped projects at high speed, you'll have the opportunity to lead broader, cross-cutting problem spaces with a small multidisciplinary team. We're tackling some of the hardest problems in construction robotics: full on-site autonomy, lifting construction-scale payloads, reliable operation at height, and millimetre-level positioning accuracy across our entire technology stack. We're looking for people who are genuinely excited to lead these efforts alongside a highly capable and supportive team. Our approach to building robots has focused on identifying the key areas that need de-risking and tackling them head-on through rapid prototyping, avoiding lengthy design processes. This has allowed us to achieve remarkable results in a surprisingly short amount of time, defying conventional expectations. If our approach excites you, this role could be a great fit for your interests and skills. We will offer you an environment that will allow you to thrive using this approach: you will have a high amount of autonomy and we will work hard to not slow you down with company meetings, unnecessary spending approvals, or other processes. What You'll Be Working On 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. * 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. * Developing lift systems to autonomously and safely lift 1000 kg loads to 10 meters. * 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. We're looking for engineers who take ownership end-to-end and love tackling problems that don't fit neatly into traditional mechanical engineering boundaries. This involves: * Designing hardware concepts from scratch. You should feel comfortable identifying and defining the key requirements to develop an MVP and work towards it. You should bias towards removing unnecessary constraints to quickly develop concepts. * Where necessary, decide on materials and simulate static and dynamic loads, stresses, and vibrations using hand calculations or using FEA tools. * Fabricate a proof-of-concept prototype in the shortest amount of time: * Source all required components; * Fabricate the necessary parts in our workshop whether they're 3D printed or require CNC milling or turning; * Assemble and bring up functional prototypes: * Pull together all required components and fabricate any custom parts-whether 3D-printed, CNC-milled, or turned-to create a fast proof-of-concept. * Integrate and validate the actuators and electronics your prototype needs, including sensors, motors, solenoids, encoders, and related hardware. * Write or adapt simple embedded code (Arduino, ESP32, etc.) to bring up the 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, while collaborating closely with the team where needed. * Own testing the prototype, iterating on your designs where necessary, and sometimes throwing things out and starting over again. * You should enjoy fast-iteration cycles. Our favourite tradition is showing off our new hardware successes and failures in our friday show and tell. * Work with our software and perception engineers and integrate designs into our software and perception stack, making them truly autonomous. * Spend time on construction sites, both seeing how your designs perform in the real world and for inspiration of what we should be improving next. * Once successful, you will productize the prototype: * Produce clean CADs in OnShape following best practices; * Produce technical drawings, documentation and other artifacts to aid small series production and assembly. * Work closely with the assembly technicians to understand how you can 10x production of your design. What We're Looking For * Someone with a bias for action: you build fast, iterate in quick sprints and focus on de-risking what matters most. You're comfortable developing hardware at software speed, continuously refining requirements through early testing and deployment. * A proven record of being a builder and being able to work autonomously: you can point us to example of shipped projects where you were the driving force of getting something done. This can be in a professional context, in a top student ("dream") team, or even just personal side projects. * Experience in designing and delivering products from concept up to low-volume production. Exposure to high-volume manufacturing is a plus. * Proficiency in rapid prototyping, 3D printing, machining, and milling to make product designs a reality. * Deep knowledge of mechanical systems and structural dynamics: e.g. statics, mechanics of materials, dynamics, vibrations, material science, and controls. * Expertise with 3D CAD modeling with complex parts and assemblies, e.g. OnShape, Solidworks, or Siemens NX. * Strong in mechanical/structural calculations. You're comfortable moving fast using first principles approaches to problems and hand calcs to de-risk designs, and disciplined about using simulations only when they actually add value. * Experience selecting, sourcing, and integrating electronics components (e.g. actuators, sensors, cameras) into hardware design. * Experience owning problems that sit within broad problem spaces, across the product life cycle. * We want to see examples where you've lead a multidisciplinary teams: mechanical, electrical software, perception etc and have driven design, verification deployment and iteration. * Being able to write (embedded) code in C or C++ is a plus. * B.Sc. in mechanical, mechatronics, or robotics engineering or similar experience is a nice to have. 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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 is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 70 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, 1X and Meta. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. About You and This Role We are looking for an electronics technician to join our team. You will support our mechatronics engineers and work closely with our hardware and software engineering teams.In this role, you'll play a crucial part in developing and manufacturing our construction robots. Your work will directly contribute to bringing our robots to life. Join our mission to bring automation to the construction industry to create affordable, beautiful, high-quality housing for everyone. You will own electronics assembly and build prototypes of our construction robot hardware, including our autonomous ground vehicles, construction cranes, supply systems, and end effectors. You will also be responsible for maintenance, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis of failure modes in our existing fleet of robots. On a non-technical level, we are looking for someone who loves nothing more than working in a highly collaborative team to solve complex problems and bring novel inventions to the world. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, are excited to continuously learn new skills, and love challenging conventional ideas. After doing an assembly, you actively ask yourself how you could do it ten times faster if you had to do it over again. We are unable to support relocation or sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be based in the Netherlands, eligible to work and able to commute onsite to Amsterdam to be considered. What you'll be working on * Assembly and troubleshooting of electronic components and systems for our autonomous construction robots, related accessories, and supporting systems. * Collaborating closely with our hardware and software engineering teams to refine designs based on real-world testing and feedback. * Implementing and improving procedures for electronic assembly and testing, ensuring reliability and efficiency in our prototypes and production models. * Managing inventory for electronic components and tools, suggesting improvements for our robot production to prevent project delays. * Assisting in the field tests of our robotic systems, providing technical support and insights to enhance performance. * Maintaining our current fleet of robots, performing occasional health checks on them and ensuring that they are always in great state and ready to be used on site What we're looking for * You have a solid understanding of electronics fundamentals, with hands-on experience in hardware assembly and debugging across tasks such as soldering, cabling/wiring/crimping, and understanding electronics schematics. * You're adept at identifying issues and coming up with efficient solutions. Your background allows you to intuitively understand how electronic components could or do fit into larger systems. * In our fast-paced startup environment, priorities can shift quickly. You're comfortable with context-switching and can handle multiple tasks efficiently. * Your excellent organisational and communication skills mean you can articulate complex ideas clearly and work collaboratively with engineers to refine designs. * A B.Sc, HBO, MBO, diploma or equivalent in a relevant field, with a minimum of 2 years of comparable work experience. An engineering or technical degree would be a bonus. 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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 are open to generalists with a demonstrated ability to focus on outcomes and get things done and are comfortable with you learning things as you go along.

Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 80 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like. About you and this role We're looking for a software engineer to join our team. Someone who loves building products and is excited to build software that can touch the physical world. 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. At Monumental, we're building an operating system to make on-site construction possible with robotics. Atrium, our operating system for construction, allows us to do everything from 3d reconstruction of a construction site (through photogrammetry), design 3d structures that will be built, up to the supply chain, path planning, and motion control of our robots. We believe our software stack is state-of-the-art and pushing the boundaries in multiple ways, but we have so far not spent sufficient time on making it actually usable for our robot operators on the field. You will help to own the product and user experience, working directly alongside our CTO. Because of the technical nature of our product, we believe this person should be a software engineer with a strong affinity for product, UX and design. If you enjoy building software products from start to finish on your own, from sketching a prototype, doing a bit of UX design work, and actually implementing the code, this role might be a perfect fit for you. You'll get a high level of autonomy and an opportunity to build software that will move real hardware around. Some of the types of challenges you might be working on: * Building an in-browser, 3d design environment for various construction structures (e.g. walls, windows, door frames, etc.) * Designing the optimal frontend experience for multi-robot command & control * Build ad-hoc visualizations to help us understand where we are in time, space or other relevant dimensions. * Bringing excellent software engineering skills to the table, and specifically writing clean, idiomatic and typed TypeScript/React code. * Design and build tools to allow us to manage a growing fleet of robots, distributed across multiple sites. * Learning how to interface with our robotics backend and in-browser WASM runtime, entirely written in Rust. 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 you're new to robotics, you might enjoy reading Bouke's 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 you'll be responsible for * Taking a problem statement and converting it into a spec, mock design, or a quick and dirty prototype in code. * Prototype and build interfaces for internal use to run and debug running hardware. * Writing and owning clean, idiomatic and typed production-level TypeScript/React code. * Debugging and performing root cause analysis of memory leaks, crashes and other problems. * Working collaboratively with our team of hardware engineers, control engineers, and robot operators to come up with the best product experience for complicated problems. * Taking full ownership of a project, going from idea to prototype to finished project. What we're looking for * Proven experience in software engineering and building complex web applications in the browser in idiomatic TypeScript. Experience in React is a plus. * Experience with 3d graphics, ideally in the browser (e.g., Three.js or WebGL) or otherwise in other programming environments (e.g. Unity) * Experience with UX design. We don't expect you to be super-star visual/UX designer, and to spend time working on user stories or conducting interviews, but you are able to design frontends without a team providing you with designs and specs. * Proven experience in building prototypes or products in a zero-to-one environment, on your own or in a very small team. This can be a side-project you've worked on, an indie app, or some other project you can show us. * Software engineering skills and best practices. You use git for version control, know how to do unit tests or how to automate deployment of your code. * Comfortable picking up new language and tools. Experience with Rust is a strong bonus. * Basic familiarity with Linux systems and conventions. 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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 is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 80 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like. About You and This Role We're looking for software engineers with deep knowledge of software engineering and modern machine vision to join our team. 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. At Monumental, we're building an operating system to make on-site construction possible with robotics. Our software stack allows us to do everything from 3D reconstruction (through photogrammetry) of a construction site, design of 3D structures that will be built, supply chain, path planning, and inverse/forward kinematics of our robots. Some of the types of challenges you might be working on: Developing algorithms for localization, mapping, calibration, and state estimation using state-of-the-art techniques such as visual-inertial SLAM or through fiducial markers, allowing us to drive our autonomous vehicles in the ever-changing environment of a construction site Designing machine vision systems that can judge the quality of bricks, mortar, or other construction objects and that can run in production Working with our software team to build a production-level system that ingests sensor data, runs your algorithms, and interfaces with our software stack Measuring the performance of our sensing system and improving it, including characterising the sources of various inaccuracies and deficiencies that we might encounter. Implementing robust, production-level code that can bring your algorithms to life. You own your projects from start to finish and don't approach problems like a researcher who hands them over to a separate software engineering team. 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 you're new to robotics, you might enjoy reading Bouke's 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 you'll be responsible for * Design and implementation of machine vision algorithms, both prototype quality for early experiments and production quality for real-world use. * When your prototypes work, being able to convert them into robust production quality code. You have proven software engineering experience beyond just doing things in a Jupyter notebook. * Design and implement novel localization algorithms (e.g., visual-inertial SLAM, or localization through fiducial markers) and ensuring we use the right sensors and logic to figure out where we are in world-space, using sensor fusion when required. * Implement state-of-art machine vision algorithms for object detection, object localization, or quality control purposes. * Implement and optimize 3D reconstruction and photogrammetry pipelines and workflows. * Design and build tools that allow debugging, analysis, and performance evaluation of your algorithms. * Bringing software engineering best practices to our team. You should be able to write production-level code that will stand on its own. * Root cause analysis and general debugging skills whenever things fail. * Taking full ownership of a project, going from idea to prototype to finished project. What we're looking for * Deep understanding and experience with multiple hardware sensor systems such as LiDARs, IMUs, and (depth) cameras. * Experience in developing, implementing, and testing mapping, localization and state estimation algorithms, such as (VI-) SLAM, VIO, ICP, and Kalman filters * Ideally, some experience with real-time, deep learning based computer vision, e.g. with multi-object tracking systems * Proven experience in software engineering, in e.g. C, C++, Python, Rust, or comparable languages. * Software engineering skills and best practices. You use git for version control, know how to do unit tests or how to automate deployment of your code. * A strong bias for action and output. We're not a research organization and emphasize shipping frequently and fast iteration loops * A strong sense of ownership and motivation 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. Interested candidates should reach out to us at: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on with your CV or portfolio -we're excited to learn about your journey and discuss how you can contribute to ours. 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 are open to generalists with a demonstrated ability to focus on outcomes and get things done and are comfortable with you learning things as you go along.

Monumental is automating on-site construction with robotics and software. Our mission is to make construction primarily software-defined and work towards a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labour. We're a growing team (about 80 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It's 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, you'll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. Monumental is based near Artis zoo in the Plantage, in the city center of Amsterdam. We have a beautiful office with an in-house workshop and robot testing facility. We're explicitly not a hybrid or remote-first company: we enjoy collaborating 5 days a week at the office. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction, and learn more about our vision and company. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like. About you and this role We're looking for a software engineer who wants to build full-stack software that can touch the physical world, not another SaaS product. You'll develop and deploy software that controls fleets of autonomous construction robots. Our software stack is very broad, covering everything from microcontroller firmware up to the UI that operators use to control the robots. We've built CAD tools for designing masonry structures, path planning and motion control, telemetry and inspection tools, and distributed data storage and sync. The technical challenges we're solving combine hardware, software, and infrastructure at scale - while maintaining high availability on construction sites. Atrium, our operating system for construction, is built with TypeScript and Rust. Much of our Rust code is compiled to WebAssembly, allowing our UI to interface directly with the same control code that we deploy to our robots. This gives us a shared stack between real-world deployments and simulated runs in the front-end. 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 you're new to robotics, you might enjoy reading Bouke's 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 you'll be responsible for * Writing Rust and TypeScript code that controls the robot in real-time, turning high-level goals into small steps that the robot can execute * Building tools and dashboards in TypeScript and React to manage and monitor a growing, distributed fleet of robots across multiple construction sites * Debugging complex issues that cut across the stack: e.g. bugs in the Chromium GC; WiFi connection issues with robot systems or race conditions in concurrent Rust code * Designing the core architecture of our platform, and choosing the right abstractions to map the messy world of construction into elegant software * Prototyping and building components that interact with various microcontrollers and distributed subsystems * Working collaboratively with our team of hardware engineers, control engineers, and robot operators to improve product experience, reliability and performance of our platform What we're looking for * Industry experience building and deploying production systems in multiple languages (Rust experience is valuable but not required) * Strong CS or mathematics foundation- you are a strong geometric thinker, understand basic linear algebra and 3D transformations * Basic 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/IP and WebSockets * 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. * 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: ************************* - share with us the most interesting or challenging project you've worked on, why you want to join and your CV or portfolio. 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.