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# Executive Assistant to Founders at Dyna Robotics

- **Company:** Dyna Robotics
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dyna-robotics/f87335c5-8ec4-4532-90b7-7f47e2e60c4d

## Job description

Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real-world performance. Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical world. Our team comes from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Cruise, and we're backed by CRV, First Round, and other leading investors.

## About the Role

You’ll be the operational backbone for our founders and the office. This is a high-urgency, high-autonomy role: things change by the hour, and we need someone who handles them without being chased. You’ll own the details so the team can focus on building.

## What You’ll Do

Executive support and coordination

- Manage and protect the founders' calendars, prioritize competing requests, and resolve conflicts quickly.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, customer demos, and visits, including logistics, preparation, and follow-up.
- Serve as a key point of contact between the founders and internal teams, customers, investors, and external partners.
- Track action items and commitments, ensuring important follow-ups don't get lost.

Travel, Events & Ops

- Own domestic and international travel arrangements, including itineraries, last-minute changes, and rebooking.
- Plan and execute team offsites, company events, and other activities end to end.
- Source, negotiate with, and manage vendors for events and office needs.
- Help coordinate office logistics and day-to-day operational needs as they arise.

Special Projects

- Support recruiting coordination, candidate visits, and interview logistics.
- Partner with the founders and broader team on special projects and ad hoc initiatives.
- Spot operational gaps, proactively solve problems, and take ownership of tasks that don't have an obvious owner.

## What You’ll Bring

- 3+ years of experience in executive support, executive operations, or a similarly fast-paced role. Experience in tech startups, venture capital, investment banking, or consulting is a plus.
- Extremely fast and reliable. You move with urgency, follow through on commitments, and don't need to be chased.
- High autonomy and strong judgment. You're comfortable making decisions independently, anticipating problems, and figuring things out with limited direction.
- Exceptionally organized. You can manage competing priorities, keep track of the smallest details, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
- Adaptable and resourceful. You're comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and tasks that don't fit neatly into a job description.
- Excellent communicator. You're clear, concise, and professional with founders, teammates, investors, vendors, and visitors.
- Discreet and trustworthy. You handle confidential and sensitive information with sound judgment and professionalism.
- Able to work on-site in Redwood City and travel occasionally.

## What We Offer

- Direct exposure to the founders and a front-row seat at a fast-growing robotics company
- Meaningful autonomy and ownership from day one.

At Dyna Robotics, we build technology for the real world, which requires a team as diverse as the environments our robots inhabit. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to technical rigor and mutual respect. Don’t let a checklist stop you. Data shows that underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the criteria. We value problem-solving and grit over keyword matching. If you’re passionate about robotics, no matter your discipline, we want to hear from you, even if you don't check every box.

## About Dyna Robotics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose commercial robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models that achieve human-level dexterity and self-improvement across diverse real-world environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Lindon Gao (CEO), York Yang (Co‑founder), Jason Ma (Co‑founder / former DeepMind research scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics / Artificial Intelligence (embodied AI foundation models)
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in manufacturing, logistics, laundry, food service, hospitality, and other industries requiring repetitive manipulation tasks
- **Mission statement**: “To empower businesses by automating repetitive, stationary tasks with affordable, intelligent robotic arms. Driving the future of general‑purpose robotics—one manipulation skill at a time.” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)

## Products & Services
- **DYNA‑1 Foundation Model** – A single‑weight, general‑purpose vision‑language‑action (VLA) model that achieves 99%+ success rates in 24‑hour non‑stop operation. It generalizes zero‑shot to unseen environments and learns new skills within hours. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **DYNA‑1i: Open‑World Dexterity** – Production‑grade manipulation system with real‑time self‑correction and human‑level dexterity at commercial throughput. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/)
- **Factory Automation** – 24/7 autonomous operation for precision manufacturing, kitting, assembly, pick‑and‑place, quality inspection, and packaging.
- **Laundry & Garment** – Automated folding and garment handling (e.g., DYNA‑1 folds 40+ shirts per hour).
- **Food & Hospitality** – Food service automation including napkin folding, plating, and delicate manipulation tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $143.5 M (Seed $23.5 M in March 2025; Series A $120 M in September 2025) [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html)
  - **Employees**: 98 (as of mid‑2025), +213.9% YoY headcount growth [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: CRV, RoboStrategy, First Round Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Robots already deployed 16 hours/day at hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms within six months of launch.
  - Strong talent influx from Tesla (14 employees), Cruise, Meta, Nuro, Amazon Lab126.
  - LinkedIn follower growth +404.3% year‑over‑year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First general‑purpose foundation model for robotics** that works out‑of‑the‑box in new environments without custom engineering.
- **99%+ success rate** in continuous 24‑hour operation and ability to self‑improve through on‑the‑job data.
- **Rapid learning**: new skills acquired in hours, not weeks, with fleet‑wide updates.
- **Founding team** with proven exit (Caper AI sold for $350 M) and deep research pedigree (DeepMind).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand world‑class research and engineering team.
- Accelerate development of next‑generation foundation model.
- Scale commercial deployments across manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries.
- Collect high‑quality data from real‑world customers to continuously improve model generalization.

## Why Work Here
- **In‑office culture** – All employees work from physical offices in Redwood City, CA (with small satellite presence in China, Canada, Hong Kong). Strong in‑person collaboration is emphasized. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics)
- **Engineering‑heavy environment** – 27% of staff in technical roles, 9% in research, and 5% consulting. Recent open roles include Deployment Engineer, Research Engineer/Scientist, Full‑Stack Robotics Software Engineer, and Data Infra Engineer.
- **High growth trajectory** – Headcount nearly tripled in a year, with aggressive hiring across operations, research, and product.
- **Impactful mission** – Opportunity to work on cutting‑edge embodied AI that directly automates physical tasks, with a path toward physical AGI.
- **Competitive compensation & perks** (inferred from top VC backing and talent drawn from Big Tech).

## Sources
1. [dyna.co](https://www.dyna.co/) – Official website
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company overview, jobs, culture
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics) – Company details, funding, employee growth
4. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html) – Series A announcement

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