Fabrica AI OPERATIONS and HR INTERNSHIP 2024
Fabrica AI is creating a future where ideating and developing a robot for any task takes days, not years. We believe that by training end to end controls in simulation with reinforcement learning and above that iterating hardware designs, we can automate the whole development process. At the current stage, the most important resource is a large fleet of robots to validate our approaches for our AI system and to collect data. This would help keep us grounded in reality.
To start building up the fleet, we invented an automatic tile grouting robot that boosts productivity by 5x and are piloting it on construction sites in Singapore managed by Woh Hup, BHCC, Gin Chia, Soilbuild, and Dragages. This should correspond to about 30% of the Singaporean market. We have early leads in the US and Europe as well. Tile grouting is the process of filling up the gaps between tiles after the tiles have been laid. Grouting is part of virtually every construction project and a highly laborious process, is considered one of the most physically damaging tasks resulting in tilers’ knees and back issues, and thus quality issues would also arise. We invented a patent pending robot that is able to automatically grout and clean tile gaps with only a press of a button. The operators would only need to reload grout and water.
We have also pitched at the Built Environment Demo Day 2022 organised by BCA as part of the International Built Environment Week (IBEW) and won the Rising Star Award. IBEW has drawn more than 10,000 individuals from over 100 countries.
Recently, we had a Presentation to Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7034394354731413504
We have also raised 850k USD from Hoxton Ventures to enable our development in not just our tile grouting robots but also other forms of construction automation.
Website: https://www.fabrica.ai/ Latest Demo: https://youtu.be/MoOgIkGSc28
Your internship would revolve around bringing our robot to market. You may be remunerated with a combination of salary and share options. It is possible to combine this with our technical internships for a more “hybrid” role. This internship requires a reasonable amount of technical understanding/engineering interest.
- Assisting with the recruitment process, including posting job openings, reviewing resumes, and conducting initial candidate screenings.
- Coordinating and scheduling interviews with job applicants and hiring managers.
- Assisting in onboarding new employees, including paperwork and orientation.
- Maintaining and updating employee records and databases.
- Assisting with HR-related communications, such as preparing HR documents and announcements.
- Supporting HR team with various administrative tasks.
- Assisting in the development and implementation of HR policies and procedures.
- Conducting research on HR trends and best practices.
- Assisting in organizing HR-related training and development programs.
- Participating in special HR projects and initiatives as assigned.
- Scheduling and joining meetings with prospective clients, investors, and partners
- Market research for expansion overseas
- Accounting and purchasing
- Scouting for new opportunities, writing proposals for them, and pushing fabrica out there
- Visiting industry trial sites, giving appropriate feedback to product development team
- Speaking to industry players, ground workers, understanding the process of tile grouting to help us shape our solution, especially from an operational point of view
- Connecting manufacturers and our product team to build and iterate on our prototype, creating new avenues for manufacturing at scale, manufacturing for reliability
- Website and other marketing/public relations management
- Any other operational duties
A great candidate would possess the following:
- Value the direct impact on the product and proximity to clients at a startup and the growth potential of a startup
- Willing to work without a very well defined job scope and willing to adapt to changes week on week
- Ability to think of metrics to measure progress and deciding based on back of the envelope calculations
- Keenness to do more than is expected, impact driven
- Growth mindset driven
Our development process is very iterative and agile. Thus, there would not be a concrete plan more than 2 weeks ahead and your role/tasks is/are likely to evolve over time. If you like this process, you’d be a good fit for us. You would thus play a significant part in deciding how your work would contribute to our overall goals. Please email your resume to careers@fabrica.ai if you are interested. Thank you
