Chief Operating Officer

The role

The Chief Operating Officer will serve as a strategic partner to the CEO to build the company's operating backbone. You will run the organization as an agent-augmented entity and scale hiring, processes, and commercial operations.

What you will do

• Scale the team by owning hiring operations and performance management
• Own the quality and efficiency of company processes including project management, legal, compliance, finance, and HR
• Set the operating cadence including planning, reporting, and decision rhythm
• Run operations AI-first by deploying agentic workflows across every operating function
• Scale commercial operations by partnering with GTM leadership
• Bridge the gap between technical output and revenue generation
• Act as a thought partner and force multiplier for the CEO

Required qualifications

• Eight or more years in operating leadership at a venture-backed company
• Familiar with current agent frameworks
• Comfortable in SQL, BI tooling, and data modeling
• Fluent in modern project management systems like Linear
• Proven strategic partner to a founder or CEO
• Authorized to work in the United States
• Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, or individual granted refugee or asylum status) or eligible to receive required U.S. government export authorization

Nice to have

• Experience operating within regulated industries and familiarity with export control compliance and sensitive technology research and development
• Experience scaling internal operations, tooling, or platform at a fast-growing deep tech or AI company
• A background that blends operating leadership with hands-on technical or data work

Benefits

• salary
• benefits
• meaningful early-stage equity

Before you apply

• PSI is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role, now or in the future
• Some responsibilities may carry restrictions tied to citizenship or immigration status due to export control obligations
• PSI may require that the person in this role be a U.S. person to comply with U.S. export control laws

About the company

Physical Superintelligence is a well-funded seed-stage startup building AI systems to discover new physics at scale.