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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.

About you and this role

We've grown from 15 to 100+ people in under two years. Our R&D team covers software, mechanical, electrical, controls, perception, and forward deployments engineers - and we need someone who can source for them full time.

You'll own inbound applications in R&D, while finding creative ways to reach candidates, then manage them through the process end to end. You'll work closely with our hiring team to understand what we're building and why, so you can effectively grow our team.

We want someone who biases towards deep, technical sourcing over volume. You will operate with significant autonomy and ownership, and deliver against our hiring plan with speed and precision. You iterate rapidly on your sourcing ideas, you're data driven, and most importantly - you know what great engineers look and sound like, and how to engage them.

What you'll be responsible for

• Owning sourcing and inbound pipeline for technical roles across software and hardware

• Finding new ways to engage talent in unlikely places - personal websites, GitHub, citations, Discord servers, Substack, YouTube - whatever works

• Partnering with hiring managers to deeply understand each role and what good looks like

• Delivering memorable candidate experience from top of funnel to final interview stage

• Analysing sourcing metrics and iterating on what's working to accelerate hiring across R&D

What we're looking for

• You've sourced for tough-to-fill engineering roles before - software, hardware, or both - and you can already think of engineers in your network who'd be interested in Monumental

• You have high standards. You'd rather tell a hiring manager a search is taking longer than put a mediocre candidate in front of them

• Genuine interest in technology. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be able to hold a semi-technical conversation about what someone builds and why it matters

• Hiring managers trust you quickly. You earn credibility through competence and consistently delivering on what you say you will.

• You pride yourself on giving outstanding candidate experience. You've probably placed candidates into multiple companies through long-term relationship building

• Strong written and verbal communication - your outreach messages get replies because they're human, specific and thoughtful, and you know how to stand out on a first call

• You are comfortable working through ambiguity. We're scaling fast, priorities change, roles and process will evolve - this doesn't faze you

• You are high ownership. If something isn't working - process, inefficient workflows, or missed opportunities - you come up with a solution to fix it yourself

• You have experience working for a VC backed startup or scale-up

• Familiarity with the European/Dutch start up ecosystem

Nice to have

• Experience hiring in deep tech, robotics or hardtech

• Dutch language skills are useful but not hard required

• Experience with Ashby ATS

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.

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, we welcome generalists who focus on outcomes and are eager to learn on the job.