Incubation Associate, Compute

The role

You will explore semiconductor and compute infrastructure to turn technical breakthroughs into company opportunities. You will work with the AI Infrastructure Investment team to identify, validate, and shape new company ideas.

What you will do

• Lead deep, exploratory research into emerging problem spaces.
• Identify new technologies and market opportunities in compute infrastructure.
• Translate research into early company theses, business models, and product concepts.
• Validate research through customer interviews and sourcing design partners.
• Synthesize learnings into pitch decks, internal memos, and research artifacts.
• Develop initial business plans including technology architecture and product roadmaps.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years in a technical role within the semiconductor or compute industry.
• Deep fluency in chip architecture and hardware-systems tradeoffs.
• Conversant in the tools and workflows of silicon design or compute infrastructure.
• Excellent at conducting deep primary and secondary research.
• Hungry for autonomy and real responsibility.
• Entrepreneurial with experience building side projects, experiments, or prototypes.
• Fluent in business models, unit economics, and market sizing.

About the company

Primary is a seed-stage venture capital firm. Primary Labs is the firm's incubation engine focused on turning ideas into category-defining companies.