Special Projects and New Ventures, Founder's Office

Lever, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with employer matching

Equity

Job summary

Laminar is pioneering intelligent production systems for the factory floor in San Francisco, building foundations for autonomous manufacturing. You will work directly with the founders to test ideas, build viable businesses, and scale ventures across industries.

Join a small, ambitious team backed by top investors and collaborating with leading global manufacturers to redefine industrial automation and sustainability.

Qualifications

• A record of launching a business, function, product, or program.
• You combine commercial judgment with financial fluency and can recruit and lead people across disciplines.
• Strong ability to build and test business cases and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize new ventures across industry verticals, geographies, partnerships, and customer offerings.
• Build business cases, define milestones, and recommend capital and headcount commitments.
• Launch initiatives such as an expert-advisory offering for major manufacturing customers.
• Recruit initial teams and work with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver results.
• Contribute to company planning and fundraising through financial analysis and evidence from new initiatives.
• Scale, revise, or stop initiatives based on results and transfer ownership.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

Leadership

Financial fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

The Role

Build the capabilities and businesses that expand Laminar’s reach. Working directly with the founders, you’ll identify promising opportunities, test their economics, and lead them from concept through launch.

What You Will Own

• Prioritize new ventures across industry verticals, geographies, partnerships, and customer offerings
• Build business cases, define milestones, and recommend capital and headcount commitments
• Launch initiatives such as an expert-advisory offering for major manufacturing customers
• Recruit initial teams and work with engineering and commercial leaders to deliver results
• Contribute to company planning and fundraising through financial analysis and evidence from new initiatives
• Scale, revise, or stop initiatives based on results, then lead them permanently or transfer ownership

What You’ll Bring

A record of launching a business, function, product, or program. You combine commercial judgment with financial fluency and can recruit and lead people across disciplines.

Your opportunity

Build a portfolio of launches or grow into a GM mandate for a business you establish.

Benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
• Transportation benefit for your commute
• A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events

Learn How We Think

• Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech
• Customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage

There are many easier places to work on AI. Laminar is for people who want the hardest version of their discipline. Models here must survive contact with physics. Hardware must survive years of continuous industrial operation. Software must integrate with machinery built decades ago. Everything we build ultimately has to work on a factory floor.

We believe exceptional people should be given exceptional amounts of ownership. At Laminar, you will have the context to form your own view, the permission to challenge ours, and the resources to pursue the right answers, whatever technical or organizational boundaries stand in the way. There are few layers between identifying something important and changing it.

We’re fortunate to work with a small polymathic team of hardware and software engineers, chemists, AI researchers, factory operators, and go-to-market wizards who are unusually capable, curious, rigorous, ambitious, and low-ego. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Our Interview Process

1. Phone screen with Laminar Head of Ops or Recruiter (15-20 minutes)

2. Intro call with Hiring Manager (30 minutes)

3. On-site interview, overview of tech, and interview/presentation with the Hiring Manager and a few team members. Depending on the role, a skills exercise that should take no longer than an hour to prep, would be sent ahead of time. We record your skills exercise to share with any team members who could not join the interview and/or with Founder's ahead of their Founder's Interview. If you are not local, we can conduct this virtually.

4. Finalists for Full-Time positions will have a Founder's Interview in-person

Final steps:

Two professional references are requested, ideally one from your current organization and one who served as your Manager

If an Offer Letter is extended, a Background check is conducted

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