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title: 'Executive Assistant to Founders at Genesis'
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# Executive Assistant to Founders at Genesis

- **Company:** Genesis
- **Location:** San Carlos, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis/eb5d25fa-5b2e-4b85-ac72-47eb36881439

## Job description

Work directly with the founders as a trusted partner and operational backbone of a fast-growing AI company. This is a high-ownership, high-autonomy role where you'll anticipate needs, protect founders' time, drive priorities forward, and use AI and automation to make the entire company more efficient.

## What You’ll Do

- Own and optimize founders' calendars, prioritize competing requests, protect focus time, and make judgment calls independently.
- Anticipate founders' needs, prepare them for key meetings, and track commitments to ensure follow-through.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, including preparation, logistics, and action items.
- Serve as a trusted point of contact between founders, employees, investors, and external partners.
- Own complex domestic and international travel arrangements, including last-minute changes.
- Support recruiting coordination, candidate visits, and interview logistics.
- Proactively identify operational gaps, streamline processes, and drive ad hoc initiatives from start to finish.
- Build AI agents and automated workflows to eliminate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency across the company.

## What You’ll Bring

- Experience in executive support, operations, or a similarly high-ownership role, ideally at a fast-growing startup.
- Exceptional speed and execution, with a strong bias for action and relentless follow-through.
- High autonomy, sound judgment, and the ability to anticipate needs and make decisions with limited direction.
- Outstanding organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication skills, professionalism, and discretion with sensitive information.
- Resourceful and adaptable, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and solve problems proactively.
- AI-first mindset, with hands-on experience using AI tools and building automations to improve productivity.
- Low ego, high ownership, and willingness to tackle everything from strategic projects to day-to-day logistics.
- Bonus: Technical fluency with AI agents, APIs, scripting, or workflow automation platforms.

## About Genesis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Genesis AI is a full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots with human-level dexterity and intelligence, powered by its own foundation model and hardware.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $105M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and London)
- **Founded**: 2024 (emerged from stealth in July 2025)
- **Founders**: Zhou Xian (CEO), Théophile Gervet (President & Co-founder), Yi-Ling Qiao (Co-founder), Tsun-Hsuan Wang (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / General-Purpose Robotics
- **Target customers**: Enterprises in manufacturing, laboratories, hospitals, and logistics; future expansion into homes.
- **Mission**: “Build the world’s most capable robots that unlock new possibilities for humans.”

## Products & Services
- **Eno (General-Purpose Robot)**: A full-body robot designed to operate reliably in factories, labs, hospitals, and homes. Driven by the GENE foundation model, it features 20 active, back-drivable degrees of freedom in its hands – matching human size and dexterity.
- **GENE-26.5 (Foundation Model)**: The AI model that powers Eno. It understands goals, reasons through changing conditions, and completes tasks end-to-end. Trained on massive human-based internet video data and proprietary simulation.
- **Data Collection Glove**: A lightweight, sensor-loaded glove worn by humans to collect high-quality manipulation data in real-world settings (e.g., lab technicians, manufacturing workers). This glove bridges the “embodiment gap” and feeds the model with human skill data.
- **Simulation System**: A proprietary simulation environment that accelerates model training and evaluation, reducing the iteration bottleneck.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$105M** (Seed round, July 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse (co-lead), Khosla Ventures (co-lead), Bpifrance, HSG; individual investors Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, Vladlen Koltun. Hardware manufacturing partner: Wuji Tech (China).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from stealth to ~53–60 employees across Paris, Bay Area, and London (monthly growth +16% on LinkedIn).
  - 29 active job postings as of mid-2026, with a +262.5% monthly increase in openings.
  - Demonstrated a wide range of manipulation tasks (cooking, piano, Rubik’s cube, lab work) in public demos.
  - In talks with multiple customers for commercial deployment in pharma and manufacturing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack integration**: Genesis controls both the AI model and the robotic hardware, enabling tighter optimization and faster iteration than companies that only do software or hardware.
- **Human-like dexterity**: The robotic hand matches human size, shape, and 20 degrees of freedom, allowing direct transfer of human demonstration data without an “embodiment gap.”
- **Data flywheel**: The combination of a low-friction data collection glove, simulation, and egocentric video creates a scalable pipeline for building a “human skill library.”
- **World-class team**: Founders and early engineers have backgrounds from Mistral AI, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Apple Intelligence, Unity, Epic, and leading robotics labs (Berkeley, CMU).

## Strategic Focus
- **Go full stack**: Continue integrating model, hardware, and data collection to deliver a complete general-purpose robot.
- **Commercial rollout**: Target early customers in pharmaceutical labs, manufacturing, and other industrial settings where dexterous manipulation is critical.
- **Scale data collection**: Expand the use of the data glove (both internally and with third-party partners) to rapidly grow the model’s skill repertoire.
- **Global hiring**: Aggressively grow the team across Paris, Bay Area, and London, especially in ML, simulation, rendering, and robotics engineering.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include candor, responsibility, limitless ambition, and a joyful journey. The team is described as multicultural, optimistic, and pragmatic.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office-based presence in Paris, San Francisco Bay Area, and London. No explicit remote policy mentioned, but the company emphasizes in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Builders get to work on the hardest problems in robotics and AI – from foundation models to hardware design to data systems. The team includes pioneers of generative simulation, Diffusion Policy, and GPU compilers.
- **Notable perks**: The chance to shape a category-defining general-purpose robot; close collaboration with world-class investors and advisors; fast-growing startup with significant resources ($105M seed).

## Sources
1. [Genesis AI – Official Website](https://www.genesis.ai/)
2. [Genesis AI – Careers Page](https://www.genesis.ai/careers)
3. [TechCrunch – “Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows”](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/khosla-backed-robotics-startup-genesis-ai-has-gone-full-stack-demo-shows/)
4. [LinkedIn – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gs-ai)
5. [robotics.press – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://robotics.press/news/genesis-ai-company-profile/)

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