PSI

Chief Operating Officer

Boston · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago

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About the role

Our mission is to discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.
The last century's golden age of physics gave us transistors, lasers, and nuclear energy.
We believe artificial superintelligence will unlock the next one.

Operations is the enabling layer that runs underneath the company, and you own it.
Own hiring operations and help PSI scale headcount 2-3x as it grows toward Series A.
Own performance management.
Own the quality and efficiency of company processes.
In coordination with the relevant executives and managers, own the systems the company runs on, including project management, internal and external communication, KPI tracking, legal and compliance, finance, and HR.
PSI builds AI systems and should be run as one internally; the goal is to make it the most aggressively agent-augmented organization in its category.
Partner with GTM leadership to define and scale the operational and staffing requirements for our commercial function.

You are familiar with current agent frameworks and you think in terms of what to automate and how to compose agents into reliable workflows.
You are obsessed with data analytics.
You are comfortable in SQL, BI tooling, and data modeling, and you can stand up the operational analytics layer yourself before there is a team to delegate to.
You treat metrics and feedback loops as how an organization should be run, and you can point to an org you have run this way.
You have owned a company's knowledge base, internal tooling, and workflow integration, and you think about the organization as a control system.
A proven operator.
You have built people, compliance, and operating functions, not only inherited mature ones.
You can operate as a peer to the CEO and the rest of the executive team and be trusted with the highest-stakes decisions.

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, rather than a pure people-and-process profile.
Our development process is AI-native, and we expect the operating side of the company to run on the same principles.
Because of our export control obligations, some responsibilities may carry restrictions tied to citizenship or immigration status, which we will discuss transparently during the process.

This role is based in Boston and is on-site at our Cambridge hub.
We offer competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and meaningful early-stage equity.
We evaluate operating judgment, what you have built, and the leverage you create.
Because of our export control obligations, some responsibilities may carry restrictions tied to citizenship or immigration status, which we will discuss transparently during the process.

You sit on a lean executive team and are expected to think and act at the level of the company, not only your function.
Instrument the company end to end and deploy agentic workflows across every operating function so that output per person scales faster than headcount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse perspectives in building platforms for AI-driven discovery.

Experience operating within regulated industries and familiarity with export control compliance and sensitive technology research and development

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