Founder Associate Physical AI & Robotics (m/f/d) | full-time or gap-year intern

Batch Robotics GmbH; München; On-site; Vertraulich; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact

Growth

Ownership

Environment

Job summary

Batch Robotics GmbH in Munich is seeking a Founder Associate to work directly with the founders as a high-ownership, high-agency generalist. This role offers exposure to building a venture-backed hardware/AI startup from the ground up in a fast-paced environment.

You will shape market entry, fundraising prep, and scalable operations while sourcing early team members and tackling critical gaps with entrepreneurial rigor.

Qualifications

• Mindset over Manuals: You exhibit extreme agency, an urgent work ethic, and immense grit.
• High-Octane Trajectory: First-rate degree from a top-tier university or ecosystem with prior experience in fast-paced setups.
• Technical & Digital Intuition: Deeply curious about AI developments, software/agentic tools, and engineering realities.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You thrive on uncertainty and view unstructured problems as a puzzle.
• Bilingual Communicator: Exceptional German and English communication with European manufacturers and investors.

Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and scale outbound experiments; sharpen commercial positioning.
• Partner with founders on fundraising prep, investor pipelines, market research, and financial modeling.
• Help transition early momentum into repeatable internal operations; manage logistics and setup projects.
• Identify, source, and interview early core team members as we scale.
• Step into critical gaps and build solutions from scratch.

Job description

Batch Robotics is revolutionizing how robots operate in factories — not through rigid programming or teaching by human demonstration, but with smart perception and AI intelligence. We are a team of 4 motivated people with +25 years of experience in industry and robotics. Our mission is to make robots smarter and more flexible, enabling batch‑size‑1 automation for surface treatment economically. Our technology helps factories in Europe to remain competitive with intelligent robotics.

• Mission-Driven Impact: We choose to tackle the hard, unglamorous problem of physical‑world automation because the preservation of industrial resilience across Europe depends on it.
• High Agency & Speed: We move too fast for corporate politics, showmasters, or heavy meeting cultures. If something is broken, you have the full mandate to fix it.
• Radical Candor: We maintain a lean, transparent environment where open feedback is shared early, failure is processed quickly, and technical truth always wins.

We are now looking for a Founder Associate (m/f/d) with relentless ambition, massive grit, and an entrepreneurial mindset to work directly alongside the founders. This is a high‑ownership, high‑agency generalist role designed as a definitive launchpad for future founders. You will get a front‑row seat to building a venture‑backed hard‑tech company from the ground up.

Tasks

• Go‑To‑Market & Growth: Design, execute, and scale outbound experiments, validate customer discovery loops, and help sharpen our commercial positioning.
• Fundraising & Strategy: Partner directly with the founders on fundraising preparation, investor pipelines, market research, and financial modeling.
• Operations & Scale: Help transition early commercial momentum into repeatable internal operations, managing special logistics, procurement, and setup projects.
• Talent Acquisition: Work closely with the team to identify, source, and interview early core team members as we scale our engineering and commercial pipelines.
• Zero‑to‑One Execution: Step into any critical business gap—whether structural, operational, or commercial—and build solutions from scratch.

Requirements

• Mindset over Manuals: You exhibit extreme agency, an urgent work ethic, and immense grit. You don't wait for a playbook; you enjoy writing it in real time.
• High‑Octane Trajectory: First‑rate degree from a top‑tier university or ecosystem with prior experience in fast‑paced setups like venture capital, consulting, or early‑stage startups.
• Technical & Digital Intuition: Deeply curious about AI developments, software/agentic tools, and engineering realities; comfortable working alongside top‑tier ML engineers.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You thrive on uncertainty and view unstructured problems as an exciting puzzle rather than a bottleneck.
• Bilingual Communicator: Exceptional, confident communication skills in both German and English to seamlessly navigate conversations with European mid‑sized manufacturers and global investors.

Benefits

• Impact: The unique opportunity to rethink industrial automation for batch‑size‑1 with cutting‑edge AI to maintain European manufacturing sovereignty.
• Growth: Challenging tasks and impactful projects alongside experts in a high‑growth VC‑funded startup.
• Ownership: Direct opportunity to actively shape the company's technical direction and hardware strategy.
• Environment: A modern, central workspace in Munich with a collaborative, international culture.

Want to shape the future of industrial robotics?

We look forward to meeting you!