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title: 'Chief of Staff at Dexmate'
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# Chief of Staff at Dexmate

- **Company:** Dexmate
- **Location:** Fremont, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dexmate/11a09429-ea67-490e-ace4-506972360d96

## Job description

## About Dexmate

Dexmate is building the foundation for physical AI — combining a new generation of robots with a universal Physical AI OS, making robots as easy to build and deploy as software. Today, robotics is fragmented, slow, and closed: most builders are forced to reinvent the same stack again and again, and most ideas never make it past the prototype stage. We exist to change that. Our mission is to democratize robotics by lowering the barrier to entry, delivering a plug-and-play platform for developers, researchers, and enterprises, and cultivating an open ecosystem that accelerates the evolution of physical AI. If you want to help shape the next layer of human capability — and believe the future of robotics should be built together, not in isolation — we'd love to build it with you.

## The Role

We are looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO as a force multiplier across strategy, operations, and fundraising. You will turn company priorities into cross-functional execution, run the research behind key decisions, and build the operating systems that keep a fast-growing robotics company on track.

## Responsibilities

- Support the CEO across strategy, business operations, fundraising, and investor communications — turning priorities into cross-functional execution.
- Structure and run the research that drives decisions: market mapping, customer and competitive analysis, vendor evaluation, and operational trade-offs.
- Prepare high-stakes materials — investor updates, financing and board decks, customer meetings, and leadership reviews.
- Build the company's operating backbone: trackers, dashboards, SOPs, and follow-up systems that keep execution on track.
- Coordinate with external partners — customers, vendors, legal, finance, and banking.

## Minimum Qualifications

- 3+ years in Chief of Staff, founder's office, strategy & operations, consulting, banking/investing, or startup operations.
- Experience in a fast-paced technology, AI, robotics, or hardware environment.
- Sharp analytical judgment: you can structure ambiguous problems, weigh trade-offs, and sharpen leadership decisions.
- Strong execution: you run multiple workstreams at once, coordinate stakeholders, hold the details, and drive projects to done.
- Fluency with AI tools to compress research, drafting, analysis, and reporting — you reach for them by default, not as an afterthought.
- Clear, concise communication: you turn complexity into materials that executives, investors, and customers can act on.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Hands-on experience with fundraising, board materials, due diligence, or investor relations.
- Familiarity with legal, finance/accounting, tax, insurance, or C-corp governance and operations.
- Prior experience as a founder, early startup operator, or in another high-growth environment.
- Genuine excitement about robotics and physical AI.

## About Dexmate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dexmate builds general-purpose robots with manipulation capabilities, integrating custom hardware with AI models for robotic operation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Tao Chen (Co-Founder, CEO), Yuzhe Qin (Co-Founder, CTO), Chongyang Wang (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Robotics Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Automation
- Target customers: B2B (enterprise, logistics, manufacturing, and research organizations)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building tomorrow's intelligence and automation."

## Products & Services
- **[Vega]**: A general-purpose mobile robot with high-payload arms, dexterous hands, a foldable torso, and an omnidirectional base. The robot is powered by custom-built hardware integrated with AI models for physical robotic operation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised via a Seed Round (closed ~March 2026) with participation from LG Technology Ventures as a lead investor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: LG Technology Ventures (lead investor), LG CNS (strategic partner for building Physical AI infrastructure for smart logistics).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +328.6% year-over-year (from ~4 to 18 employees). LinkedIn followers grew +67.8% yearly. In April 2026, launched the "Dexmate Build with Vega U Research Grant Program," selecting six research teams to receive a Vega robot. Strong hiring momentum with 11 active job postings as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Hardware + AI Stack**: Designs custom high-payload arms, dexterous hands, and omnidirectional bases specifically for AI-driven manipulation, creating a tight hardware-software moat.
- **Physical AI Focus**: Differentiating by building "Physical AI" that moves beyond lab settings into real-world logistics and manufacturing, as evidenced by the partnership with LG CNS.
- **Rapid Scaling**: Demonstrated ability to grow headcount and attract top-tier talent from institutions like Carnegie Mellon University, UC San Diego, and companies like NVIDIA and Bosch.

## Strategic Focus
- **Physical AI Infrastructure**: Partnering with LG CNS to build the infrastructure that enables Physical AI to operate in smart logistics and manufacturing environments.
- **Research & Ecosystem**: Grant programs to seed the research community with Vega robots, driving platform adoption and innovation.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering (AI, robotics, embedded systems), design, product management, and business development to scale the team.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge general-purpose robotics and Physical AI, moving technology from labs to real-world impact.
- **Engineering-Heavy Culture**: 60% of employees are in technical roles (AI, robotics, software, hardware), with a strong emphasis on hands-on building.
- **Fast-Growing Startup**: ~328% headcount growth in one year, indicating high trajectory and opportunity for early employees to have outsized impact.
- **Location**: HQ in Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley), with an in-office work policy (on-site workspace).
- **Compensation**: Engineering roles list salary ranges like $100K–$300K, competitive for the robotics/AI space.
- **Notable Culture Signals**: "Build with us" hiring language, active LinkedIn community (4,273 followers), and a focus on "smile, reach out, and instantly connect" suggests a collaborative, builder-oriented environment.

## Sources
1. [dexmate.ai](https://www.dexmate.ai/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/dexmate](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dexmate)
3. [builtin.com/company/dexmate](https://builtin.com/company/dexmate)
4. [craft.co/dexmate](https://craft.co/dexmate)
5. [linkedin.com/company/dexmate](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dexmate)

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