Assembly & Prototyping Technician

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 100 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 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: 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 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.