Technical Recruiter

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 of about 100 people, 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, making this a unique opportunity to join early in a high-growth, high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1, you’ll work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors.

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

The engineers we want to hire don’t usually apply to job posts. They’re probably not browsing LinkedIn, and when a recruiter reaches out with a generic template InMail, they ignore it.

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 engineering, 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 such as personal websites, GitHub, citations, Discord servers, Substack, YouTube, and wherever else works
• Partnering with hiring managers to deeply understand each role and what good looks like
• Delivering a 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, in software, hardware, or both, and you can already think of engineers in your network who’d be interested in Monumental
• You have high standards and would rather tell a hiring manager a search is taking longer than put a mediocre candidate in front of them
• You have a 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 and have likely placed candidates into multiple companies through long-term relationship building
• You have 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, and roles and processes will evolve, and this doesn’t faze you
• You have high ownership. If something isn’t working, whether it’s process, inefficient workflows, or missed opportunities, you come up with a solution and fix it yourself
• You have experience working for a VC-backed startup or scale-up
• You are familiar with the European/Dutch startup ecosystem

Nice to have

• Experience hiring in deep tech, robotics or hardtech
• Dutch language skills are useful but not 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.

Unfortunately, we do not currently support internships.

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.