Associate, Power & Compute Hardware

The role

You will drive venture creation across opportunity areas including grid hardware, power electronics, energy storage, semiconductors, photonics and compute infrastructure. This role involves opportunity research, founder recruitment, tech and product development, economic analysis, go-to-market, fundraising, investment decisions and portfolio management.

What you will do

• Build conviction on priority areas through deep technical and market analysis
• Identify talent with high founder potential and hire them as Founders in Residence
• Work with Founders to develop venture ideas and de-risk them
• Turn ideas into new companies with team, funding and a roadmap to seed
• Ensure robust diligence to support progress or stop decisions
• Perform supporting work such as external content creation, events, and founder resources development
• Provide portfolio support and ecosystem relations

Required qualifications

• Technical expertise in device/compute or power/grid
• PhD in Applied Physics, Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering or related
• Experience building hardware that had to work
• Commercial orientation including product, customers, economics, deployment, manufacturing or supply chains
• First principles reasoning
• Clear communicator
• Talent intuition
• Team player who moves fast with high standards and high ownership
• English fluency

Nice to have

• French or German
• Applied experience in startups or industry
• Prior experience working with early-stage startups, deep tech commercialisation, applied R&D, or industrial tech development
• AI native
• Relentlessly curious
• A superpower such as technical mastery, pattern recognition, original ideas, high EQ, strong network, or extraordinary writing skills
• Playing to win
• Pragmatic optimist

Benefits

• Health insurance (Alan)
• Meal and mobility vouchers (Swile)
• Exposure to network of top founders, investors, and advisors
• Working with bright, driven individuals
• Rapid learning curve and personal development
• Enhanced parental support

About the company

Marble creates hard tech companies for the New Climate Era, across energy, industry and resilience. Since 2021, they have launched 15 companies backed by investors across Europe and North America.