- Servo7
- Amsterdam, NH
- Full-Time
- 61 days ago
- $60,000 – $90,000
Founding Hardware Engineer.
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Founding Hardware Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a hardware engineer focused on building a mobile robot for container unloading in logistics.
- The Person:The person will prototype parts and subsystems, design hardware for manufacturing, serviceability and safety, integrate off-the-shelf components, and build test rigs to validate the robot in real container-unloading conditions.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has strong CAD skills and experience taking robots or machines from first sketch to a working system in the real world, using 3D printing, machining, and off-the-shelf sourcing.
About the role
About Servo7
We’re a small team, building robots to automate how the world's goods are moved. We build AI-powered robots for the hardest, most demanding job in logistics: unloading loose-loaded shipping containers at the dock door, the entry point of the entire supply chain. Our robots work in the field, doing the job for paying customers. For 3 months in a row, we have doubled our customer base. Now, we need more engineers to keep up with demand.
Founded by a team with experience in military drones, surgical robots, LLM research, and world models. We have an office and a small factory in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (with an actual shipping container inside). We operate across western Europe, and we have global growth ahead of us.
Our first product is Mammoth, a mobile container unloading robot. One robot at the dock door that is deployed in just 45 minutes, unloading a full container. Mammoth reads the container in real time and handles each box as it finds it. We deploy, we watch, we fix, and deploy again. The whole loop, often within a single day. If you want to be part of a team that builds fast, consider applying.
What you’ll do
As our Founding Hardware Engineer, you have ownership over all the mechanical aspects of the robot. We expect you to take initiative to improve the speed, reliability, safety and overall usefulness of the robot.
- Prototype new parts and subsystems in and around the robot (a lot of different moving machines working together)
- Design the hardware for manufacturing, serviceability and safety
- Select and integrate off-the-shelf components (actuators, pneumatics, sensors, structural elements) and know when to build versus buy.
- Build test rigs and run experiments to validate designs against real container-unloading conditions
- Work with AI and software teams to make sure all systems fit together cleanly
What we’re looking for
- You've taken robots/machines from first sketch to a working system in the real world (in production).
- Strong CAD skills and a track record of parts you've designed, built and iterated on.
- Proven experience across prototyping methods (3D printing, machining, off-the-shelf sourcing) and a bias for building and testing over polishing in isolation.
- You want to work in a startup: you'll get your hands dirty building, deploying and debugging while having fun together.
(subject to change)
- 15-minute online screening. You’ll hear from us within one day
- A tour + lunch in our factory & office in Amsterdam
- Take-home questions related to designing/prototyping of the robot
- Presentation at the office & offer extended
Servo7 is hardcore about robots. We deeply believe that there are too few people working on actually deploying robots in the field. That's why we focus on deploying robots that are actually doing useful work in places for which humans are not the right choice. We help humanity by freeing up time and effort for creative, high value work. While our robots automate the dangerous and heavy tasks. Come build & deploy robots with us.
We are based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our investors include co-founders of OpenAI, Huggingface, Framer, Remote, Mollie, and engineers at Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta, as well as VC funds, and Y Combinator.

