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This role is going to be so important at Monumental. 👇 My colleague Alfred Polycarpe arrived as an intern and quickly became a critical part of the team. We soon learned how much it matters to have people who: a) are really in tune with operating the robot b) enjoy diving in at any layer of the stack*, and c) can iterate super fast on the problem that's physically in front of them, right now Sound fun? We're now hiring for more Forward Deployed Robotics Engineers. * e.g. gluing things back together; wandering around with a hard hat and a measuring tape; writing Typescript and Rust; debugging the output of the computer vision pipelines and so on.
One of the most common questions we get at Monumental is "how do I get into a robotics as a software engineer"? Inspired by our time at Palantir, we decided to open up a new role for Forward Deployed Robotics Engineers. The typical Silicon Valley startup advice to become an effective engineer is “spend more time with your users”. Our version of this is “go spend time with robots". Alfred Polycarpe wrote a great blog post on his experience, starting with us as an intern and quickly growing into this role and becoming an expert in robotics, doing everything from debugging our robots to tuning kinematics and writing new motion plans: https://lnkd.in/e-XbkMKg We're opening this up as a full-time role: https://lnkd.in/e9VEDRYU And also as an internship if you have no industry experience yet: https://lnkd.in/eCvrypfS
