Chief of Staff

About Grafton Sciences

We’re building AI systems with general physical ability, the capacity to experiment, engineer, or manufacture anything. We believe achieving this is a key step toward building superintelligence. With deep technical roots and real-world progress at scale (for example, a $42 million NIH program), we’re pushing the frontier of physical AI. Joining us means inventing from first principles, owning real systems end to end, and helping build a capability the world has never had before.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Chief of Staff who operates as an extension of the CEO—someone who removes obstacles, drives clarity, and ensures the company is moving fast. This is a high-leverage, high-trust role for an individual with strong technical intuition, exceptional execution ability and a founder-type mindset.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the CEO’s right hand, taking on anything that blocks the company, with enough technical depth to meaningfully operate in a deep-tech environment.

• Own whatever is bottlenecking you that day: research, modeling, recruiting support, vendors, docs, process, investor prep

• Run cross-functional projects that cut across hardware, software, operations, and fundraising

• Take rough requests from you and turn them into structured plans, then execute

• Build and maintain internal coordination systems so the company “runs like a machine”

Qualifications

• Very high throughput, biased to action

• Technical background preferred, Ideally in the fields of CS, physics, biology, chemistry, or synthesis

• Founder-type mindset: willing to do anything, not precious about scope

• Comfortable in chaos and incomplete information

• Learns new domains quickly (finance, legal, ops, whatever is needed)

Above all, we look for candidates who can demonstrate world-class excellence