Work where the model has to be right at 3am
Treadum builds software that changes what a tire plant does, on a product where failure is a safety event. If you want your work measured in scrap avoided and escapes prevented rather than in engagement metrics, this is the place.
Disciplines we hire across
What makes this work different
Physical consequences
Your model’s output becomes a setpoint on a press. That constraint makes the engineering culture careful in a way that is genuinely rare.
Data nobody else has
Linked genealogy from compound batch to final grade, with imagery, telemetry and human overrides attached. It is the most interesting industrial dataset we know of.
Domain experts in the room
You will defend your work in front of process engineers with decades on these lines. They will be right often. That is the fastest learning environment there is.
Short loop to reality
Ship on Tuesday, see it in a shift report on Thursday, hear about it from an operator on Friday.
Autonomy, earned
We do not ship confidence. We ship gates, evidence and rollback. Engineers who like that constraint tend to thrive here.
Small team, big surface
Perception, control, simulation, edge systems, security and evidence — all in one product, with very little bureaucracy between them.
Where we need people now
Treadum closed a $1.5M seed round backed by 99SA Ventures, and these are the first roles it funds. We will always tell you where a role actually stands before you invest time in a process.
Autonomy · Amsterdam or remote (EU)
Senior Perception Engineer
Own defect sensing across vision, X-ray and shearography: fusion, localization and the false-hold rate that gates every deployment.
ApplyAutonomy · on-site rotation
Process Control Engineer (Curing)
Build cure-state estimation and adaptive dwell control, and defend it in front of process engineers who have run these presses for twenty years.
ApplyPlatform · Amsterdam or remote (EU)
Edge Systems Engineer
Jetson-class runtime, Triton and NIM serving, signed bundles, version pinning and rollback that works during a night shift.
ApplyField · travel-heavy
Forward-Deployed Engineer
Live inside customer plants: land connectors, run baselines, sit in on override reviews and bring the truth back to engineering.
ApplyAutonomy · Amsterdam
Simulation Engineer (Digital Twin)
Build the as-built tire and line twin: builders, presses, molds, conveyors, robots and the WIP behaviour that decides takt.
ApplyTrust · remote (EU/US)
Quality Systems Lead
Own the evidence chain: IATF 16949, DOT and UNECE mappings, audit exports and the non-conformance workflow.
ApplyGo-to-market · EU or US
Enterprise Account Executive
Sell a paid pilot to a plant director on a hard metric, then expand cell by cell. No dashboard demos.
ApplyTrust · remote (EU)
Security Engineer
OT segmentation, tenant isolation, supply-chain signing and the security pack that survives a tire group’s procurement review.
ApplyWhat applying looks like
No take-homes that waste a weekend
We run a short, honest process: an intro call, a technical conversation about work you have actually done, a paid work session on a real problem, and a conversation with a design-partner engineer where you get to interrogate us.
- Intro call — 30 minutes, mutual fit and role reality
- Technical conversation — your past work, in depth
- Paid work session — a real problem, scoped to four hours
- Partner conversation — meet a plant engineer, ask hard questions
Operating norms
Weekly model review
Overrides, false holds and gate progress reviewed every week with customer engineers present. It is the most important meeting in the company.
Everyone goes to a plant
Every engineer spends time on a floor in their first quarter. You cannot build this well from a description.
Decisions are written
Design decisions, gate criteria and post-incident reports are written documents, not meetings that evaporate.
Remote with rotations
EU-remote friendly with regular on-site rotations. Field roles travel heavily by design.
Real ownership
Meaningful equity for early team members, with transparent terms explained before an offer, not after.
What we offer
| Area | Detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Compensation | Benchmarked to European deep-tech senior bands, plus meaningful equity | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Location | Amsterdam hub, EU-remote friendly, field rotations | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Equipment | Whatever you need, including edge hardware for local development | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Learning | Conference and course budget, plus plant time with process engineers | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Time off | Minimum policy, not unlimited — we track that it is actually taken | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
| Health | Comprehensive coverage per country of employment | [ASPIRATIONAL] |
Benefits are stated as intent for the founding team and will be confirmed at offer stage.
What your first quarter looks like
- Week 1: Run the simulator, ship a small change, read the envelope reference end to end.
- Weeks 2–4: Sit in on override reviews and shadow a design-partner engineer through a full shift.
- Weeks 5–8: Own a component: a defect family, a connector, a gate metric or an agent surface.
- Weeks 9–12: Take something you own from shadow to assist at a real site, with the gate evidence to prove it.
- Ongoing: Keep a plant relationship. Everyone here has one.
What partners say about our team
“We had three people watching X-ray images and still shipped uniformity rejects. Treadum flagged the cord shift at the building drum, not four hours later at final inspection.”
“The cure agent found 40 seconds of margin on a construction we had run the same way for eleven years. It proved it in shadow mode before it touched a press.”
“Genealogy is the part I did not expect to care about. Every tire now has a linked record from batch to grade, and audit prep went from weeks to an afternoon.”
[PLACEHOLDER] Design-partner quotes are illustrative until pilot references are published.
Before you apply
No, and most of the team will not have it. You do need genuine curiosity about physical processes and the humility to be corrected by someone who has run the line for twenty years.
EU-remote friendly, with regular on-site rotations. Field roles are travel-heavy by design. If you never want to stand next to a curing press, this is not the right company.
Treadum has raised a $1.5M seed round backed by 99SA Ventures, which funds the founding engineering and field team. We will tell you exactly where things stand on the first call rather than after four rounds of interviews.
Yes. Send what you have built and which part of the loop interests you. Specific beats generic every time.
Put one cell on autonomy in 90 days
Pick one wedge — splice inspection, X-ray defect detection, cure-state optimization or uniformity prediction. We baseline it, run shadow mode, then graduate to bounded autonomy under a signed control envelope.
Pilots start in shadow mode. No line changes until accuracy and safety gates pass.