Assembly & Prototyping Technician

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.

This role is a generalist technician role in a small startup environment with a lot of variety. You will be responsible for assembling small production series and occasionally building prototypes 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. After doing an assembly, you actively ask yourself how you could do it 10 times faster if you had to do it over again.

What you’ll do:

• Fabrication and assembly of production hardware and maintenance of our existing fleet - this could be anything from end-effectors and autonomous ground vehicles that can traverse rough construction sites, to entire robotic cranes.
• 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.

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.