Founding Hardware Engineer - Autonomous Construction Vehicles
Crewline AI
San Francisco, CA (in-person, no remote)
Apply: Text Freddie on +1 914 427 3472 or email on [email protected].
About Us
- Crewline AI is building autonomous construction vehicles - starting with drum rollers and pushing into dozers, dump trucks, excavators.
- Our plug-and-play kit retrofits any machine in ~30 minutes. We tie directly into the vehicle control and layer on a full perception stack (stereo cams, LiDAR, RTK GNSS, IMU). Combined with our Starlink-powered tele-op network, operators anywhere in the world can run U.S. machines in real time. Remote today, autonomous tomorrow.
- In <3 months, we went from prototype → live site deployment, generating $220K ARR and building a $50M+ pilot pipeline.
- We’re backed by Initialized (seed in 27 unicorns), Nebular, Ford Street, Cocoa, Begin, and 20+ founder-angels (Supabase, Cleo, Scape, Monumental, Kojo)
- Led by second-time founders Freddie (built $30M ARR construction startup, ex-Google, Oxford CS) and Mo (ex-Amazon ML, founding engineer @ y42, $50M raised)
Why Join Us
- Fix humanity’s heartbeat: construction. Productivity in construction has gone backwards for decades. Homes are unaffordable. Infrastructure is slow and expensive. We’re here to rebuild humanity’s ability to shape the physical world.
- Build real robots. Not demos. You’ll ship hardware that moves 20+ tons of steel on live job sites, living in our RV The Endurance. We debug in the dirt, under vibration, heat, rain, and noise.
- Extreme ownership. You’ll be one of the first engineers. Everyone here passed a very high bar. There is no hiding, only building.
About You
- You are a pragmatic builder. You bias toward simple, reliable systems and shorten iteration loops relentlessly.
- You have a 0→1 track record - side projects, startups, skunkworks or full ownership inside small teams.