--- title: 'Technical Product Manager (FR) at Genesis' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-product-manager-fr-genesis-paris-y4w5wkh4fs8n' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Technical Product Manager (FR) at Genesis - **Company:** Genesis - **Location:** Paris, France - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis/baa745cc-61fd-493f-82de-e9d15278202a ## Job description ## What You'll Do - Own the product roadmap needed for deployment for our core Physical AI capabilities, translating research breakthroughs into deployable, customer-facing products. - Sit at the intersection of research, robotics engineering, and field deployment to turn ambiguous technical tradeoffs into clear product decisions. - Define what "ready for a customer site" actually means by setting success metrics, reliability thresholds, and scope boundaries for each release. - Drive cross-functional alignment across distributed teams in research, engineering, and field operations. - Customer-facing, supervising technically POCs and pilots for Genesis customers & partners and for internal projects - Working closely with the robotics team on requirements (robot, data collection, privacy, infra constraints) ## What You'll Bring - Track record of shipping technical products where the primary challenge was managing complex tradeoffs, not filling out roadmap slides. - Deep enough technical understanding to read a policy evaluation, understand a sim-to-real gap, or participate in complex debug sessions and ask the right questions without needing to write the code yourself. - Strong bias toward the field over the whiteboard, preferring to evaluate a failed pick on a live customer floor over reading ten synthetic benchmark reports. - Exceptional written communication skills to write specs and decision logs that hold up when you're not in the room. - Comfort operating with incomplete information in a fast-moving, pre-paradigm field where answers aren't obvious. - International expertise and connections Bonus: Prior experience in deployment, robotics, autonomy, or another domain where "works in the lab" and "works in the world" carry vastly different bars for success. ## 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. 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