Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer

The typical startup advice to become an effective engineer is “go spend time with your users”. Our version of this is “go spend time with our robots in their natural habitat, the construction site”. It turns out to be very hard to sit in an office behind a desk and improve the behavior and performance of a robot, tuning kinematics, or scoping new features that interact with the messy real world of a construction site. We’ve found that the most effective way of doing this is being with the robot and being in a position where you can fix it yourself instead of asking another engineer to do it for you. Our FDREs own the technical side of deployments end-to-end. You will be a key driver in making every deployment successful, taking ownership of solving unknown problems in the field, building features that unlock higher productivity, and continuously improving our workflows to increase autonomy. Your work directly influences how many bricks we can build, how quickly we can deploy new capabilities, and how reliably our robots operate. Because FDREs sit closest to both the product and the customer, the improvements you make can have a direct and significant impact on the business, shaping how we scale our operations and deliver value. While helping us build beautiful homes faster, more efficiently, and autonomously. We don’t expect you to have prior experience with robotics. Our ideal candidate has excellent problem solving and debugging skills, combines technical skills with creativity, and can deal with high stress environments when things fail. You’re a strong engineer but above all obsessed with driving good outcomes. If you’re done with doing yet another SaaS job, this is a unique opportunity to bring yourself back into the real world: you’ll learn how buildings get built, how robots work, and be at the cutting edge of applied robotics. 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. As a starting point, you’ll be comfortable building walls with our robots, similar to our Construction Robot Operators. The topology of the site, niche project details, or edge cases that we haven’t dealt with before. It’s your primary responsibility to identify those issues and to own solving that start-to-finish: coming up with a solution, writing the code to fix it, deploy and test on a robot, and ensure rolling out to our entire fleet.