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

- **Company:** Jua
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-01-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jua/5648f293-592d-4423-89e8-16bf34d8ba0a

## Job description

## Overview

Physical AI, a real model of the world, is the next trillion dollar opportunity and a foundational pillar for energy, robotics and superintelligence. At Jua we are building it now. Our models already run on four continents and help power the energy buildout needed to support ever larger intelligence. We are assembling a world-class team of researchers and entrepreneurial minds to turn this model into reality at global scale. If you want the opportunity of your life, come build physical AI with us.

## The Role

You work directly with the founder. You operate as a force multiplier who plugs into whatever matters that day and makes sure it gets done. That includes deals, product calls, investor work, model launches, internal alignment, and fixing operational gaps before they slow us down. The pace is high. The context load is real. You will see everything.

## What You Will Do

- Work with me on the highest leverage problems across product, GTM, partnerships, operations, and fundraising
- Sit in high-stakes meetings with customers, investors, and strategic partners
- Bring clarity to priorities and make sure decisions turn into action
- Build lightweight dashboards and operating systems that keep the team aligned
- Own cross-functional projects end-to-end and clear bottlenecks quickly
- Write sharp briefs, investor materials, and internal notes
- Handle practical execution when needed, such as travel, schedules, logistics, and on-site coordination

## Who You Are

- Extremely fast learner who can switch contexts without dropping quality
- Strong analytical ability and comfortable with Python and data tools (vibe coding is enough)
- Clear and concise communicator who can compress complexity
- High ownership, bias toward action, zero drama
- Ambitious and want to operate close to the core of the company
- Backgrounds that tend to work well include top consulting, investment banking, founder’s office roles, early stage operators, ex-founders, ML engineers with broader interests, or exceptional outliers

## Requirements

- Relocation to Zurich
- Frequent short notice travel to the UK, Nordics, US, and Asia
- Ability to operate at high speed and handle fast decision cycles
- Whatever it takes mindset

Please note: We prioritise your answers to the application questions over your CV, so we encourage you to complete them as thoughtfully and thoroughly as possible. At Jua, we foster a performance culture and value people who embody our beliefs of service and adventure. We prioritize agility, operating at the highest clock speed to adapt quickly to change. We innovate on behalf of our users and leverage data supremacy to maintain our competitive edge. Through clear communication and fact-based decision-making, we ensure alignment in our pursuit of excellence. With these principles, we aim to create a customer-focused, value-centric organization that sets new standards in the industry. We value the unique perspectives that each individual brings to the table and believe that embracing diverse backgrounds and experiences enriches our collective journey towards growth and success.

## About Jua

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jua is a frontier AI lab building a foundation model for reality – a large physics model that learns from data to predict, simulate, and act within the physical world, starting with the atmosphere.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; latest round $11.4M closed July 2025 per LinkedIn, conflicting reports indicate $11M Series A in June 2025 bringing total to $27M)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Marvin Gabler (CEO & Co-Founder); other co-founders not publicly named

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Tech, Energy, Physical AI
- **Target customers**: B2B – energy traders, utilities, hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies; expanding to agriculture, logistics, and manufacturing
- **Mission**: “A foundation model for reality” – to build the layer every physical AI system runs on top of, starting with the hardest continuous‑physics dataset (the atmosphere) and transferring to any domain governed by physical laws.

## Products & Services
- **EPT-2 (Earth Prediction Transformer 2.0)**: A proprietary large physics model trained on petabytes of multi‑domain data. Outperforms ECMWF on atmospheric prediction and transfers to airfoils, shock waves, and other physics domains. Powers the Earth Intelligence Platform.
- **Athena**: An agent that resolves objectives inside physical reality. Given an objective, a world model, and tools, it simulates consequences and acts. In production for energy trading, utility management, and internal research. Also runs Jua’s employee quant fund.
- **Earth Intelligence Platform**: A decision engine that simulates global and local weather, energy supply‑demand, and grid‑level dynamics in real‑time. Used by leading energy trading firms to anticipate pricing and automate decisions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $7.6M (LinkedIn estimate)
  - Total Funding: $41.7M (LinkedIn, including seed, pre‑seed, non‑equity assistance, and Series A) OR $27M (Tech.eu, citing $11M Series A in June 2025) – conflicting reports
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ananda Impact Ventures, Future Energy Ventures, 468 Capital, Promus Ventures, GGF
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Powering 100+ GW worldwide (company website)
  - In production with Fortune 500 companies, energy traders, and leading hedge funds
  - Athena drives decisions on energy trading desks globally
  - Expanding into agriculture, logistics, and adjacent markets
  - Hiring actively (8 open positions as of profile date)

## Competitive Advantages
- **State‑of‑the‑art atmospheric prediction**: Beats every incumbent, including ECMWF, the institution that defined the field for forty years
- **Physics transfer**: The same model trained on weather handles airfoils, shock waves, and other physical domains – a true foundation model of physics
- **Agent‑first architecture**: Athena is a universal agent that can be pointed at any physical objective (prediction, trading, research acceleration, etc.)
- **Research‑led**: Peer‑reviewed publications at ICLR and NeurIPS; profits reinvested into R&D

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the commercial rollout of the Earth Intelligence Platform, especially in energy
- Expand into adjacent markets (agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, materials)
- Double down on R&D to extend the world model beyond the atmosphere into turbomachinery, thermal, and other domains
- Become the layer every physical AI system runs on top of

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Small team, long hours, one kitchen” – a tight‑knit, high‑impact environment. Six values include “Factfulness” and “Research‑led.” Focus on outcomes, not hours.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Zurich‑based employees can work from anywhere in the world for one month each year. Otherwise, in‑office in Zurich (“with each other”).
- **Perks & benefits**:
  - Company stock options
  - Annual budget for courses, books, conferences
  - Budget for equipment of your choice
  - Daily chef‑cooked lunches in the office
  - Paid vacation, sick leave, parental leave, plus local holidays
  - Team retreats at inspiring locations
- **Engineering culture**: Fast‑paced, research‑forward. Work on the hardest problems in physical AI. Hiring process is about three weeks with a trial day; most candidates hear back within 48 hours.
- **Talent sources**: ETH Zürich (top feeder), Stanford, and top labs – strong academic pedigree.

## Sources
1. [jua.ai](https://jua.ai/) – Company website (product descriptions, mission, metrics)
2. [jua.ai/careers](https://jua.ai/careers/) – Careers page (culture, hiring process, benefits)
3. [LinkedIn – Jua](https://www.linkedin.com/company/juaai/) – Company details, financials, headcount, open roles
4. [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/jua-raises-11m-to-scale-earth-simulation-platform-for-energy-and-climate-forecasting/) – Series A announcement and platform details
5. [CB Insights – Jua](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/jua) – Funding history and investor data

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