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title: 'Sourcer, AI Research & Engineering at Genesis'
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# Sourcer, AI Research & Engineering at Genesis

- **Company:** Genesis
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis/7c821c7f-3f0d-4afd-8eee-6c47430c9d8d

## Job description

## About the role

Genesis is a physical AI research lab and full-stack robotics company on a mission to unlock unlimited physical labor. We're building a universal robotics foundation model that unifies high-fidelity physics simulation, generative modeling, and large-scale real-world robot data. To get there, we need the best Research Scientists, SWEs, and Robotics engineers, and we're going head-to-head with the top AI labs to win them. It all starts at the top of the funnel: finding the people who aren't looking, and getting them to look. You're the front line of how Genesis wins talent. The quality of who we hire is capped by the quality of who you put in front of our team, and you'll be early enough to define how we source for years to come: the channels, the playbook, the tooling, the bar at the top of the funnel.

## What you'll own

- Finding the people no one else can. Source elite Research Scientist, SWE, and Robotics/infra candidates who aren't on the market and have no reason to leave their current lab. Until your message lands.
- Sourcing where the best actually are. Papers, GitHub, conferences, citation graphs, communities, networks, not job-board spray. You go find them, and you know how to read who's actually exceptional.
- Outreach people answer. Write personalized, credible outreach that earns replies from senior researchers and engineers who ignore recruiters. You're the first impression of Genesis; make it sharp.
- Building pipeline that converts. Map markets, build target lists, and keep healthy, calibrated pipelines moving for every active search. Hand recruiters and hiring managers candidates worth their time.
- Building the machine. Stand up scalable, well-organized sourcing in Ashby, and automate the parts that don't need a human (list building, enrichment, sequencing) so you spend your time on judgment and outreach.

You'll thrive here if

- You've sourced senior, hard-to-win technical talent (engineering, AI/ML, or research) in a competitive market, and have the response rates to show for it.
- You can read a technical profile and tell signal from noise: whose papers matter, whose GitHub is real, who's actually exceptional.
- You write outreach that sounds like a human who did their homework, not a template.
- You think in systems and automation: you'd build an AI workflow than run the same manual search twice.
- You're a self-starter who brings structure to ambiguity and moves fast without dropping quality.
- You read data well, including response rates, pipeline health, and where searches stall, and you adjust.

Bonus points

- You've sourced Research Scientists, robotics, or deep-tech engineers specifically.
- You've sourced across UK and France.
- You've used AI tooling to genuinely speed up sourcing, and have opinions about what works.
- You've been early at a startup and built something from zero.

The offer

- Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support
- Hybrid: 3-4+ days per week in our office
- A front-row seat to one of the hardest, most important problems in AI, and the chance to build the sourcing engine behind it

## 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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