###### Our Culture ## Our mission is ambitious We want to fundamentally change the way that automation systems are deployed and drastically increase the adoption of robotics. Essentially, we want to change the way the world makes EVERYTHING. In order to get there, we are creating a world-class organization that will last for generations. The employees of today are the leaders and influences of tomorrow, and that is an incredible place to be. In order for us to do our best work, we need a unified vision — not just of WHAT we do, but more importantly, HOW we do it. We need to be united, we need to raise the bar of how we do every little thing - from turning a bolt, to running a simulation, to sending an email, to building an excel model — we need to pay attention to the WAY we do things. ### Made of Rubber * * * Be flexible enough to meet any challenge. ### One Formic * * * We only win when we win together. ### Fearless Optimism * * * Strive forward with confidence. ### Create the Magic * * * Traditional automation is hard. Formic is easy. ### TNT — Today, Not Tomorrow * * * Aspire to work efficiently. ### Seek Truth * * * Know the WHY behind the decision. > “Automation can be such a black box for manufacturers. At Formic, we shoulder that uncertainty for our customers and work together behind the scenes to make deployments feel like magic. It takes a joint effort - and certainly it takes good baton passes - among a great group of people to make it all happen; I am so happy to be a part of the team doing it all.” > Arti Brannon Sales Development Representative > “I enjoy digging into the technical details to craft the perfect automation solution. It’s all about problem-solving and making sure every system delivers real, lasting impact.” > Brian Jaworski Solutions Engineer > “Every day at Formic is challenging and exciting. We’re constantly learning and working together to create something that has never been done before.” > Katherine Coco Director of FP&A and Accounting > “Bringing automation to life on the factory floor is the best part of my job. I love training teams and seeing their excitement when the robots start running.” > Josh Huang Robotics Deployment Project Manager > “I love helping customers see how easy automation can be. It’s exciting to turn hesitation into confidence and show them a path to real productivity gains.” > Sylvia Domanico Automation Sales Manager > “What makes my role at Formic unique is the speed and direct involvement at which we iterate and execute, allowing us to put advanced robotics directly into production to solve our clients' most pressing operational challenges fast.” > Danielle Vigent Automation Solutions Engineer ## Why join team Formic? ## We are a people-first robotics company We are a stellar team of cross-functional, hand-selected talent, from sales people to engineers, roboticists to finance experts, and everything in between. We’re changing the world of automation with some of the brightest minds of the industry. Formic has a _Flexible Time Off (FTO)_ policy bundling vacation and personal time off. We believe that people are more productive when they practice a healthy work-life balance and we trust our employees to know themselves best and to take the time off they need. While we have an office in Chicago, we are a global and remote-first team. As such, your home may very well be your main office environment. All new employees receive a new computer as well as a generous office supply budget to build out a comfortable home-office space in which to work. We provide for you so that you can provide for your loved ones. This means not only comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, but also a generous parental leave policy to enable employees to prepare for, care for, and bond with a newborn or a newly adopted or newly placed child. ### Fearless Optimism Formic exists to create a world of abundance by outsourcing the drudgery of work to robots so that humans can be unleashed to do the creative, imaginative, collaborative, satisfying, society-advancing work we’re meant to do. Realizing our mission will require us to rethink the status quo, stay on the cusp of today’s innovations, solve really hard technical and operational problems, and most importantly, remain fearlessly optimistic while we do it. ### Create the Magic We exist to absorb complexity. We communicate with **clarity**. We are surprisingly, unexpectedly **fast**. We understand our robots are critical to the customers’ production. That is a responsibility we take seriously. ### TNT — Today, Not Tomorrow The only way to do the industry-shaping, tide-raising, high-impact work we are here to do is to deliver great work at a steady clip. We must take decisive steps forward, as often as we can. ### Seek Truth To build trust, we must be predictable. Ambiguity is the enemy of scale. Whether architecting Formic Core or managing a deployment, we work from first principles to find the _right_ answer, not the popular one. ### Made of Rubber At Formic, we work like rubber; when we fall we bounce back up. We are flexible enough to meet all kinds of challenges and are strong enough to get through them without falling apart. ### One Formic We are judicious with our asks, mindful of the costs of internal requests, and look for opportunities to be proactively helpful. We think about how to make useful information available to our colleagues.