Technical Chief of Staff@Optimist
Hiring post: We are looking for a Technical Chief of Staff to work closely with Pranav, Co-founder & CTO at Optimist.
The bar is high. You are probably among the top 10–15 hardware people in your engineering cohort in the country. And you want to build a deep-tech company someday.
Who are you?
0–4 years out of engineering. Strong technical depth and curiosity. Exposure to mechanical engineering, engineering design, chemistry/materials or adjacent fields.
Full-stack hardware engineer: comfortable going from first principles to CAD/prototyping/manufacturing and ability to go deep in multiple science/engineering disciplines at pace.
Your campus years probably had both: serious technical work and meaningful leadership.
Bonus points for: you have tried building a hardware start-up. It does not matter if it worked.
The role is deliberately broad. You might:
- Project-manage a moonshot technology program
- Solve one of our nastiest engineering problems
- Build a global R&D centre
- Find and structure breakthrough technology partnerships
- Evaluate R&D investments
- Raise grant or debt capital for technology programs
In short: spend 2–3 years seeing how a deep-tech company gets built, while working directly with the CTO across engineering, product, capital and strategy.
The hope is that you leave us ready to build one yourself.
If this sounds like you - or someone you know - hit me up.
Short application link in the first comment. Just your basics + two questions.
I’m putting a short application link in the first comment. Just your basics + two questions.
Pranav Chopra
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