About us

We believe speed of iteration is one of the most important levers to get us towards success. You need to be creative when dealing with problems, pragmatic in cutting out things that might be elegant but won’t matter, and constantly prioritizing what to focus on. You don't over-optimize on efficiency, but you get the first version out the door to unblock critical issues.

We are building things that haven’t been done before, meaning that even the world's best experts can’t answer every question we’re dealing with–we must solve our problems on our own. At the same time, we need to internalize all the relevant lessons learned without re-inventing the wheel. You are able to find and absorb whatever knowledge might be necessary to get the job done and have an innate ability to learn.

You are self-directed and are able to take full ownership of projects, while being supported by a talented team of diverse generalists.

You are product-minded and outcome-oriented. We are building autonomous technology for the construction industry. The products we deliver are brick walls and other parts of a building, not our robots or software. You never lose sight of this, and are wary of overengineering some piece of technology that won’t contribute meaningfully to the products and outcomes we care about.

You don’t mind getting your hands dirty. We're growing fast but we're still a startup and we all help out wherever is necessary, whether it's assembling a desk or cleaning dishes after our communal lunch.

Believe in our big mission that affordable and beautiful housing is needed to make this world a better place. You believe that great teams make magic happen, while you can solve tricky things yourself.

Are passionate about bringing physical products to life that affect the real, built environment.

Like working in a startup environment, navigating chaos, uncertainty and complexity.

You are driven, organized, and communicative and you thrive in environments with high ambiguity.

We don't hang out on beanbags and play foosball on Friday afternoons and if that's what you're looking for, Monumental might not be for you. We do offer you a challenging job with a strong mission, a talented team to learn from and an opportunity to build something that has never been successfully built before.

A highly impact role where you're not going to be working for months optimizing some tiny component of a large system. Every role in the company still has an outsized impact on what we do.

A creative, innovative environment where we ship quickly and learn even faster from our failures. We work collaboratively in small teams of smart generalists that help each other achieve our goals.

Being able to help grow and nurture the team and company for the long term.

A competitive, market-rate salary, with a generous equity package.

A beautiful office based in the city-center of Amsterdam, where you're surrounded by both trees, robots, and the elephants from the zoo.

We'll make sure all the essentials are in place for you to do your best work.

We fully own our entire stack, from the code we prototype on a microcontroller to final assembly and control of our robots. This vertical integration gives us maximum control to solve the specific problems we need to solve, and instead of making things harder, it allows us to solve each problem at the exact layer where it’s most appropriate.

We bring the mindset of a software startup to hardware and robotics. We prototype rapidly, prioritize the most difficult parts first so that we can derisk them quickly and try to ship improvements of both software and hardware on a weekly basis.

To be able to ship hardware updates on a weekly basis, we make most of our hardware prototypes completely in-house, in our own workshop. Hardware engineers at Monumental don’t spend their entire day behind CAD but are also 3d printing, turning, CNCing or whatever is needed to get their prototypes working.

We treat our robots as a modern, distributed computing system, and not as “industrial” hardware. You won’t find PLCs or a CAN-bus in our stack but Intel NUCs, Nvidia GPUs, RP2040s and ethernet (in fact, we power our electronics with PoE) throughout our stack.

Most of our control software is written in Rust. We believe Rust provides us with a great balance between high level abstractions and efficient low level control and is an ideal language for modern robotics. Rust easily targets multiple platforms, and we use it to both interface with our hardware and drive high level motion planning and simulations

Our 3D sim and digital twin runs in the browser and is written in TypeScript. We compile Rust code from the backend (e.g. for path planning) to WebAssembly and run it in the browser for simulations.

That being said, we try to be pragmatic above all and care more about the product outcomes than engineering for its own sake. So we naturally also use Python for machine learning and perception or embedded C for specific microcontrollers whenever that makes the most sense.