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# Chief of Staff at Nidus Technologies

- **Company:** Nidus Technologies
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies/71c0f7b7-459e-4c8c-ad55-dadfa7800e99

## Job description

## About Us

Nidus is building autonomous manufacturing systems powered by AI and robotics. U.S. manufacturers are under growing pressure to increase output while navigating workforce constraints, underutilized equipment, and increasingly complex supply chains. We believe the next generation of manufacturing will be enabled by more intelligent, flexible automation—systems that help people and machines work together to expand capacity and improve productivity. We're building the intelligence layer that makes that possible. Our team comes from the intersection of defense technology and AI. We've built and shipped products to DoD customers, and we bring deep experience across ML, robotics, product development, and defense. We're a small, in-person team in New York City working on hard problems that matter. If you want to build the future of American manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you.

## About the Role

We’re looking for a generalist who's interested in working on our hardest business problems. You’ll work closely with the founders on some of thea highest-leverage problems at Nidus—taking something that is initially messy and undefined, building the systems around it, and helping it scale. Your first major focus will be recruiting. Building an exceptional team is one of the most important things we can do as a company, and we want someone who can help turn recruiting from something founder-driven into a world-class capability. From there, the role can evolve in a number of directions. You might continue building recruiting into a function you lead, take on another area like data operations, or move onto an entirely new problem as the company grows. The goal is to give you meaningful problems to solve and the opportunity to build around the ones you find most interesting.

## What You’ll Do

- Take on high-priority business problems that don’t yet have an obvious owner or playbook.
- Initially, spend a significant amount of your time building and improving our recruiting function.
- Work on data operations as another major area of opportunity, including the systems and workflows behind collecting, organizing, and managing training data.
- Depending on your interests and the needs of the company, continue leading what you build or move on to the next hard problem.

## Who You Are

- The Guy or Gal — People trust you to do things.
- Strong opinions — You believe things should be done a certain way.
- Low ego — You care more about solving the problem than about who gets credit.
- High agency — You do things.
- A strong generalist — You learn things fast.
- Business-minded — You understand how individual projects connect to the broader goals of the company.

## What We’re Looking For

- Evidence that you’ve taken ambiguous problems and driven them through to execution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.

We care much more about how you think and operate than whether you’ve had a specific title before.

## Nice to Have

- Experience at an early-stage startup in any role, IB, or consulting
- Experience in recruiting, talent, or people operations.
- Exposure to AI, robotics, manufacturing, or other technical environments.

What Success Looks Like In your first months, you’ve made recruiting meaningfully better and helped us scale data operations.

Nidus Technologies is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!

## About Nidus Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nidus Technologies builds AI-powered robotic manufacturing systems to supercharge America’s industrial base, starting with the defense sector.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early‑stage, funding not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2017 (per Built In) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nidus-technologies)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Applied AI, Manufacturing, Defense
- Target customers: Defense industrial base (largest buyer of US‑made parts); manufacturers needing automation of high‑precision machine operation
- Mission: Reduce manufacturing costs so the US can compete with China, by creating an intelligence layer that enables machines to operate continuously and autonomously.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Manufacturing System**: A decision‑making robotic system that operates high‑precision factory machines (e.g., robotic arms) using foundational robotics models and machine learning. Type: Hardware + Software (AI/robotics platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (early‑stage, no public revenue or funding figures)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available
- **Growth Signals**: Small, senior technical staff; actively hiring for Robotics Engineer, Backend Engineer, Hardware Engineer; in‑person NYC team with fast iteration

## Competitive Advantages
- Focus on the defense industrial base, a large and stable buyer of US‑made parts
- Uniquely solving autonomous manipulation in real manufacturing environments (an unsolved problem)
- Building foundational robotics models tailored to production‑grade hardware, not just lab demos
- Emphasis on shipping physical‑world performance over benchmarks

## Strategic Focus
- Scale autonomous manufacturing to increase output without increasing headcount
- Deepen integration with the defense supply chain
- Continue iterating on sim‑to‑real pipelines and vision‑language‑action models for production environments

## Why Work Here
- **Early‑stage ownership**: Employees have enormous influence on how the company and product are built
- **Hard technical challenges**: Autonomous manipulation in real factories is a genuinely unsolved, high‑impact problem
- **Mission‑driven**: Work directly supports the US defense industrial base and national security logistics
- **In‑person culture**: NYC‑based, fast iteration, team lunches, no remote roles; hybrid flexibility noted on Built In but careers page emphasizes in‑person
- **Compensation**: Robotics Engineer role offers $200k–$275k salary + meaningful equity stake
- **Hiring process**: Quick (intro call, technical conversation, paid in‑person visit); no cover letter required; portfolio/GitHub welcome but not mandatory

## Sources
1. [nidus.tech](https://nidus.tech/) – Company overview and mission
2. [nidus.tech/careers](https://nidus.tech/careers/) – Careers page with culture and hiring process
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nidus-technologies) – Company details, founded year, office policy
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nidus-technologies) – Job listings
5. [nidus.tech/careers/robotics-engineer](https://nidus.tech/careers/robotics-engineer/) – Robotics Engineer job posting with salary and responsibilities

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