Assembly Technician - Croatia
About us
Gideon builds autonomous forklifts for the hardest jobs in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. Our flagship product, Trey, is already live in real warehouses — doing the heavy, labor-intensive work that is increasingly hard to staff and costly to get wrong. We're backed by Koch Disruptive Technologies, Toyota, and Prologis: the investors who know this industry best are the ones betting on us.
We're 100+ exceptional people across Croatia and the US — engineers, operators, and builders from all walks of life, united by team spirit, a drive to keep learning, and genuine curiosity. Together, we design and deploy robots that make some of the world's most demanding environments safer, more efficient, and more scalable. We've built strong relationships with major enterprise customers and proven the value our technology delivers. Now we're ready to turn that foundation into repeatable, multi-site growth — and we're just getting started.
About the role
We are looking for a technician to join our manufacturing team in Zagreb!
In this role, you will be responsible for following assembly instructions and contributing your experience to building our robots and testing mobile robotic systems and their components. In order to understand our robots better, you’ll be working closely with our mechanical and electrical engineering teams based in Zagreb, as well as the QA.
Responsibilities we’ll trust you with:
- Assembly of the mechanical and electrical components according to documentation and engineering inputs
- Testing and troubleshooting of electro/mechanical systems
- Providing feedback and updating in-house technical documentation
- Performing other technical duties when needed to ensure that everything runs smoothly
- Working in close cooperation with electrical, mechanical and QA engineers, based in Zagreb
Your area of expertise:
- Finished a technical school or have at least two years of experience with basic electrical or mechanical assembly
- Good knowledge of using electrical instruments and mechanical tools
- Ability to read electrical schematics and mechanical drawings
- Good prototyping capabilities and hands-on approach
- Thorough and analytical approach to solving problems
Bonus points:
- Knowledge of soldering and basic electrical circuits
- Experience with wire harnessing
Steps in the selection process:
Introduction
Tell us about your experiences and interests, and we will tell you more about the position, about our team and Gideon as a whole. We cherish the individual approach to every candidate and we are always curious to hear how we fit into your plans!
Technical Assessment
This stage will show you how the actual job will look like and how you fit in. You will get an insight into technical details by completing the technical task and discussion with one of our senior experts.
Final interview
The final step is a more in-depth conversation where you will get a full picture of how your work in Gideon would look like and what kind of culture we cherish.
Offer!
If all goes well, this is when we send you the offer with the information and details about compensation, vacation policy, benefits plan and all the other working details.
If we already managed to spark your interest, you can apply even now
But the best things are yet to come if you continue to read on :)
