Reports to: Fabian Kerj, CEO and founder

Comp: Solid cash + real equity. You will own a meaningful slice of Qualia.

We are building the platform that brings AI into the physical world, starting with European factories. I am looking for one person to be my right hand. Not an assistant. Not a project manager. The person I think out loud with at 7am and trust to run with anything by 7pm. If we hire the right person, in two years you are either running a function at Qualia, leading a strategic bet for us, or starting your own company with me as your first investor. This is the job for someone who wants to learn how a company gets built from the inside seat next to the founder, and is willing to work harder than they ever have to earn it.

What you will actually do

Everything I do not have time to do that matters.

On any given day you might:

• Sit next to me in a fund meeting and write the follow-up that closes the term sheet

• Fly to an site in Frankfurt and project-manage the pilot rollout

• Source 30 candidates for an engineering hire by tonight

• Build out our financial model

• Write the investor update that goes out tomorrow

• Draft a deal memo for a new partnership

• Take notes in the all-hands

• Build agentic systems to help us move faster

• Untangle a customer issue that has been festering in a Slack thread

• Get on a 9pm call with a partner in Mumbai because that is when they are free

• Talk me out of a bad idea, or push me into a good one I am avoiding

Things you will help own end to end:

• Customer pilot project management: on time = customer happy

• Hiring pipeline: sourcing, scheduling, references, offers

• Investor and board updates: monthly written, quarterly board pack

• Operations administration

• Special projects I hand you that no one else can hold

Things you will support me on, not own:

• Strategic decisions (you are in the room, you push back)

• Product direction (you understand it well enough to brief on calls)

• Engineering work (you do not write code, but you live close enough to call bullshit)

  
  

Who I am looking for

You are early in your career and ferociously ambitious. Two to four years out of school, ideally. Maybe a top consultant or banker tired of building decks for someone else's company. Maybe a generalist at a hot Series A or B who wants more surface area. Maybe a founder whose last company did not work and you want to learn before you go again. Maybe none of the above and you are just unreasonable in the best way. The number of years matters less than the trajectory.

You think like an owner, not a hire. When something is broken, you fix it. When you do not know how, you figure it out. You do not wait for permission. You do not say "that is not my job."

You write well. Investor updates, customer emails, internal messages, follow-ups. You will write a lot, and our reputation will partly be made of what comes out of your keyboard.

You are numerate. Models in Sheets, P&L, cap tables, SAFEs, dilution, comp ladders. If you do not have all of this yet, you will pick it up.

You are organized but not bureaucratic. Spreadsheets that get used, not Notion pages that rot. You close loops. You write things down.

You are comfortable with technical depth without being technical. We build neural networks for robots and sell to factories. You will not write training code, but you will spend enough time around it to understand what we do and translate it to anyone in the room. Robotics/ML/hardware background is a big plus, not required. Curiosity is required.

You can hold confidence. You will see comp, fundraising, conflicts, my texts at midnight, the inside of every customer relationship. None of it leaks.

You can move to Copenhagen and travel. In-person role. EU work-authorized.

What you get from this

The highest-leverage learning role at Qualia:

• Sit in every conversation that matters: investors, customers, partners, hires, strategy

• Watch a company scale from 10 to 50 to whatever comes next, from the seat next to the person making the calls

• Build skills you would never get as a 25-year-old anywhere else: fundraising, hiring, deal-making, financial planning, customer ops

• Real equity stake in a company we both think can be one of the most important robotics companies in the world

• A path to either run a function at Qualia, lead a strategic bet, or get backed by me to start your own

• I will mentor you actively. We will talk every day.

Why Qualia

Foundation models are coming to the physical world. The same paradigm that gave machines language is now giving robots spatial intelligence. The companies that figure out how to take these generic foundation models and make them work in a specific Audi factory or a specific Stora Enso paper mill will be the platforms of the next decade. We intend to be one of them. We are built in Copenhagen. Technical, ambitious, weird in the right ways. We work in Discord, we use AI for everything, we ship fast. Unicorn or dead, and we like it that way.

I read every email myself. I respond fast. If I think there is something there, you will be on a call with me within a week. If you are not sure if you should apply, apply.