On the floor
We scope, deploy and debug in fab shops. Assumptions die quickly there, which is the point.
Careers
Build the layerbetween softwareand molten metal.
In brief
Weldeon is a small, technical team building autonomy for a process that punishes hand-waving. If you want your work measured in first-pass yield rather than engagement, read on.
Next step
The work
Software that has to be right the first time
Most software fails softly. A retry, a rollback, an apology in a status page. Ours writes parameters to a machine depositing molten metal into a joint that will hold a bridge up for fifty years.
That changes how we build. Boundaries are enforced below the intelligence, not above it. Every action is recorded before the next one begins. Confidence is a first-class value, and 'we are not sure' is a supported outcome that stops a cell.
It also changes who enjoys it. People who like constraints, physical reality and being told plainly by a welding foreman that they are wrong tend to thrive here.
Team
How we work
Six practices we actually hold to.
Small teams, whole problems
An engineer owns a scope end to end — sensing, model, adapter and the number it moves.
Domain in the room
Welding and quality engineers sit inside product decisions, not downstream of them.
Written arguments
Design decisions are written down and argued in text before they are built.
Honest status
We label what is unknown internally with the same discipline we use externally.
Deep work
Meeting load is deliberately low. Physics does not respond well to context switching.
Roles
Open positions
All roles are hybrid with regular travel to customer fab shops. [PLACEHOLDER] — role detail and locations are confirmed in the first conversation.
- 01
Perception engineer — welding
Sensor fusion across laser tracking, through-arc sensing, thermal and vision to produce a metric joint estimate with honest uncertainty.
- 02
Controls engineer — robotic welding
Real-time parameter and motion control on the factory edge, inside a hard qualified envelope, at 20 ms.
- 03
Welding engineer, product
Own procedures, envelopes and code models. Translate D1.1, BPVC, ISO 3834 and EN 1090 into machine-enforceable constraints.
- 04
Simulation engineer — distortion
Physics-informed models for weld sequence, distortion and residual stress that run fast enough to plan a shift.
- 05
NDT machine-learning engineer
Radiographic and ultrasonic interpretation with calibrated confidence and an inspector genuinely in the loop.
- 06
Deployment engineer
Own integration weeks: controllers, sensors, MES, roles and the baseline that makes a scorecard mean something.
- 07
Founding account executive
Sell a paid pilot to a fabrication operations director on a scorecard, not a demo.
Hiring
The process, start to finish
Four conversations, about two weeks, no take-home marathon.
- Intro
- 45 minutes on what you have built and what you want to build. Two-way from the start.
- Technical depth
- A conversation about a real problem in your domain — no algorithm trivia.
- Working session
- Two hours on an actual Weldeon problem, paid, with the engineer who owns that area.
- Floor visit
- Where possible, a fab-shop visit together. It is the fastest way for both sides to know.
- Offer
- Compensation, equity and level explained in full, with the reasoning behind the numbers.
Team
What we optimise for
Depth
few people, whole problems, long attention spans
Floor
regular time in customer fab shops for every engineer
Written
design decisions argued in text before code
Honest
unknowns labelled internally and externally
Team size, funding stage and specific locations are shared in the first conversation rather than published.
“Physics does not care how confident your model sounded.”
Growth
What a first year looks like
Concrete, because vague career pages help nobody.
- 01
Weeks 1–4
Ship something small to a real cell, and spend at least one week in a fab shop watching people weld.
- 02
Months 2–4
Own a scope end to end — the sensing, the model, the adapter and the metric it is judged on.
- 03
Months 5–8
Lead an integration week at a customer site, including the parts that go wrong at 6am.
- 04
Months 9–12
Own a scorecard line publicly, in front of a customer, including the weeks it does not move.
Benefits
The practical things
[PLACEHOLDER] — final benefit detail confirmed at offer stage.
Equity for everyone
Meaningful ownership with the calculation explained rather than implied.
Real hardware
Access to cells, sensors and edge appliances. You cannot build this on a laptop alone.
Travel that matters
Fab-shop visits are funded and expected, not rationed.
Learning budget
Including welding certifications for engineers who want to actually understand the process.
Apply
Tell us what you would build
No cover letter. Tell us about a hard technical problem you owned end to end, and which of our roles it points at.
Questions
Career questions
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For the welding-engineer and NDT roles, yes. For perception, controls and simulation, no — but you need genuine enthusiasm for learning the process, because you will be on a fab-shop floor within a month.
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Hybrid with regular travel. The product is built where the metal is; teams that stay remote from the floor build the wrong thing very efficiently.
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Write anyway. Small teams hire the person before the requisition more often than the reverse.
Begin
Bring autonomy to thearc, the fit-up andthe inspection bay.
Book a pilot on one cell or line. We agree the scorecard before we start — first-pass yield, rework hours, defect escapes, takt — and we report against it in the open.