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# Founder-in-Residence, Robotics at Marble

- **Company:** Marble
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/marble-studio/am9icG9zdDpJJBQz5FJwS2M-vK1YvjGA

## Job description

## About Marble

Marble is a climate tech venture studio. We partner with scientists, engineers and operators to create companies solving hard climate problems in the world's largest industries. Our first 10 companies are building transformative products across energy, industry, agriculture and climate resilience. 100% have been successful in raising follow on to date. We are looking to partner with exceptional individuals to create our next venture.

Scaling Climate Tech With Robotics The clean industrial transition means the world need to deploy 5-10x more physical assets within the next two decades. Yet, we're running out of skilled workforce to build and service them. Across industries, labor bottlenecks are acute. O&M roles face up to 50% turnover globally, with millions of skilled jobs unfilled. Critical tasks are increasingly expensive and hard to staff, such as thermal retrofits, renewables and grid deployment, industrial machinery operations, or inspections in hazardous environment. Compounding factors include stagnant productivity, aging populations, limits on immigration, and the security imperative for domestic supply chains. Enter robotics. Rapid advancements in autonomy, multi-modal sensing and rugged hardware could let robots operate 24/7 outdoors, slash build times and service costs, enhance safety, and capture new data in a way that humans cannot. We're exploring new ideas for the coming robotics wave to deliver the climate tech infrastructure in a way that's better, faster, cheaper, and safer.

The Opportunity We’re excited about use cases where robotics can unlock speed and scale in the deployment phase of critical climate industries, such as energy, utilities, logistics, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, mining and climate resilience. In particular, we're interested in sectors where there is an acute labor shortage, where work is either dangerous or difficult to perform, and where robots could provide fast and consistent value to customers, with a capex payback within 18 months.

Approaches we're considering include:

- Specialized robotics. Robots optimized for industry verticals, which leverage mature technical stacks and falling hardware costs. The range of applications is vast, e.g. infrastructure deployment, inspection, maintenance, transport, manufacturing …
- Enabling hardware systems. Frontier robotic technologies which allow for novel use cases with high climate upside. Examples include new sensors, actuators, soft robotics, morphological computing, new materials, robotic assembly, and more.
- Physical intelligence. New AI systems for operating in chaotic outdoors environment. This includes embodied AI and edge inference (e.g. low-latency controls), better sim-to-real feedback loops, physics-based and domain-specific models, etc.

From a product and business model perspective, we're considering three approaches:

- Hardware as a service, leasing robots or parts as OPEX with maintenance
- Outcome based contracts, e.g. paying per MW installed, hectare planted, etc
- Vertical integrators / developers with robotics in the backend

## Skills & Profile

We're looking for a technical founder who’s obsessed with going on the terrain, thrives in fast iteration and has an evident founder <> problem fit. You don’t need to come from “robotics” per se. But you should have a deep understanding of systems where automation has a right-to-win. Examples of relevant profiles:

- Robotics engineer, ideally with experience deploying robots in the field, e.g. energy, construction, manufacturing, mining, logistics, maritime, agriculture, etc
- Robotics researcher, with an expertise in autonomy, perception or embedded systems, looking to build and deploy in the real world.
- Startup founder / operator / investor with exposure to robotics, climate tech, and/or passionate about specific industry verticals We encourage you to apply even if you don’t feel you meet all requirements. Above all, we value intelligence, creativity and Founder Potential. Especially if you recognise yourself below:
- You can’t wait to start your own company (or your next one)
- You are a pragmatic optimist on a mission to tackle climate change
- You are outcome focused and action oriented - you make things happen
- You are a great communicator - you can convince others to follow you
- You love to break down ambitious goals into actionable milestones
- You understand that innovation starts with people - not ideas

## What We Offer

As a Founder-in-Residence, you will join other stellar individuals who also believe in the need for deep tech solutions to solve hard climate problems. Together, we would be scoping high potential approaches before converging on the most promising one and finding your future co-founders

## We offer (among other things)

- A €2,500 to €3,000 monthly allowance during the programme
- A €250,000 pre-seed investment on startup creation if you’re successful. You and your team will own 80% of the company at pre-seed.
- Full-stack support in our [venture creation programme](https://marble.studio/how-it-works). Mentorship and guidance at every step of the way Hands on support across technology and market research, landing interviews with experts and customers, techno economics, roadmap and scale up strategy, IP strategy, team building, advisor sourcing, and more Access to an unparalleled network across science, industry, talent, investors, mentors, climate tech founders, curated vendors and suppliers Access to our research insights, knowledge base and founder resources Weekly check-ins, work sessions in our Paris HQ (or remote) and continuous peer learning with other programme participants
- Seed Fundraising support after the programme. Introductions to the best seed investors from our network and help with term sheet negotiation.
- [Founder Visa](https://www.welcometofrance.com/en/fiche/french-tech-visa-for-founders) sponsorship if you wish to relocate to France. Remote participation is possible, preferably from Europe and with regular in-person meetings.

How to Apply We are looking for the best candidate - so you are welcome to apply as soon as possible.

➡️ [Apply Here](https://marblestudio.typeform.com/apply-fir?typeform-source=getro&utm_source=Marble+job+board&utm_medium=getro.com&gh_src=Marble+job+board) or see the [Programme Structure](https://marble.studio/how-it-works) We believe that a diverse group of minds is key to solving the climate crisis. We encourage women and people of colour to apply. Studies have shown that under-represented candidates are less likely to apply for an opportunity unless they feel they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and mission-driven cohort. If you’re excited about the programme but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with what you read on our website, we encourage you to apply anyways!

FAQs For a full list of FAQs, please visit [our website](https://marble.studio/faq). Marble is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Marble

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Marble is a climate tech venture studio that partners with scientists, engineers, and operators to build deeptech startups focused on slashing emissions, removing carbon, and creating climate resilience.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Benjamin Tincq and Jonny Everett

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Climate Technology Venture Studio / Deeptech Startup Builder
- **Target customers**: Scientists, engineers, and operators (B2B, founder-focused); the studio builds B2B/enterprise climate tech startups that target hard industries (construction, manufacturing, energy, steel, geothermal)
- **Mission statement**: "Bring us at least one gigaton closer to net zero and create a future that thrives."

## Products & Services
- **Marble Residency Program**: A structured program where Founders-in-Residence work on "hard climate problems" to build ventures with massive impact potential. Marble provides support, funding, and access to a network of top climate investors and experts.
- **Venture Studio (Pre-Seed Investment & Company Building)**: Marble partners with scientists, engineers, and operators to turn promising ideas into investable pre-seed companies. They act as the first backer and provide operational support (fundraising, talent sourcing, strategy).
- **Stealth Companies (Portfolio)**: Marble has created 13 companies since 2021, including ventures in areas like next-gen geothermal, construction robotics, construction operations, battery manufacturing, iron & steel, and Physical AI for manufacturing. 100% of their companies have successfully raised follow-on funding to date.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Seed round raised on 2023-01-01 (1 investor disclosed). The exact amount is not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with top climate and hard tech investors across Europe and North America. Specific investor names are not listed publicly.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - 33 employees as of latest data, with +50% year-over-year headcount growth.
    - Workforce distributed across 9 countries (France, India, Canada, UK, UAE, Kenya, Netherlands, Italy, Germany).
    - 13 companies created since 2021 with 100% success rate in raising follow-on funding.
    - Active job postings for 7 open positions (as of latest data), covering founding engineer and co-founder roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized Focus on Hard Climate Tech**: Unlike generalist venture studios, Marble exclusively targets deeptech climate solutions in the world's largest, hardest-to-abate industries (steel, construction, manufacturing, energy).
- **Proven Track Record**: 100% of their portfolio companies have successfully raised follow-on funding, demonstrating strong venture creation and market validation.
- **Founder-First Model**: They actively seek scientists and engineers with deep domain expertise (PhD a big plus) and provide a structured residency program, reducing the risk and friction of starting a climate company.
- **Global, Distributed Team**: Operates across 9 countries, giving them access to top global talent and diverse market insights.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Creating 10 new companies targeting 5 gigatons of CO2 reduction. Actively scoping new impact areas in next-gen geothermal, construction robotics, Physical AI for manufacturing, and iron & steel decarbonization.
- **Direction for growth**: Expanding the residency program to attract more technical founders (scientists, engineers, operators) and building companies that can scale massively. They are open to hearing about broader idea spaces in climate where they haven't yet formed a thesis.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven environment singularly focused on solving climate change. Emphasis on technical excellence, scientific rigor, and real-world impact over academic goals. Described as a place for those "tired of focusing on academic goals" and wanting to "build and effect real world change, quickly."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid and remote roles available. Open positions are listed in multiple locations (USA, UK, Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, France) with hybrid options for many roles.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: 
    - Work on the most challenging climate problems with top-tier scientists and operators.
    - Access to a network of leading climate researchers, policy makers, and investors.
    - Opportunity to become a founder (Co-Founder, CTO/CEO) of a new climate startup backed by the studio.
    - Support from a core team with deep expertise in applied science, climate tech markets, and company building.
    - Distributed team across 9 countries, offering a global, collaborative environment.

## Sources
1. [marble.studio - About](https://marble.studio/about)
2. [marble.studio - How It Works](https://marble.studio/how-it-works)
3. [LinkedIn - Marble](https://linkedin.com/company/marble-climate)
4. [careers.marble.studio - Jobs](https://careers.marble.studio/jobs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Marble Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/marble)

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