Business Operations
What We're Building:
We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:
🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.
🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.
This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.
The Team:
We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!
As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.
Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.
BizOps at Medra:
The Business Operations role is dynamic, offering intense learning and growth opportunities. You’ll work directly with the Chief of Staff to scale Medra’s processes and turn vision into execution, bringing operational rigor to our most pressing priorities. Some reasons you might be interested in the role:
You’re excited by robotics, LLMs, and the chance to apply cutting-edge technology to real world problems.
You’re driven by impact, with bold ambitions to tackle meaningful challenges (like accelerating the discovery of new cancer treatments).
You want to grow fast by taking on a lot of responsibility.
Responsibilities
Business Operations: own execution and documentation of day-to-day processes, tackling ad-hoc problems, keeping the office operating smoothly. Help plan events such as happy hours, off-sites, recruiting events, marketing events.
Finance: own expense management, invoices & receivables, taxes, and financial modeling.
People Operations: facilitate onboarding, payroll, cap table management, and be a leader who sets the culture at Medra.
Process Improvement: identify root causes of pain points and streamlining cross-functional workflows and tooling across customer success, hiring, finance, and ops.
Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives: act as Medra’s “Swiss‑army knife,” scoping and executing on some of the company’s most pressing challenges on an ad-hoc basis.
Requirements
1-3 years of experience in strategy consulting, finance, product, or business development is very useful. We are very open to high-slope individuals at the beginning of their professional career.
Get stuff done: Even though you are juggling a million balls at once, you do what you say you’re going to do, on time, every time. No task is too small for you and you’re ready to do whatever it takes.
Comfort with ambiguity, lack of structure, and lack of clear guidelines.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
Direct, willing to take feedback gracefully, and unafraid of giving feedback openly .
Adaptive and introspective; willing to learn, teach, lead, and follow.
Bonus points for:
Experience leading operations at high-growth, early-stage tech companies.
Experience in applied math, statistics, engineering, the sciences is a huge plus.
Built internal knowledge bases or no‑code automations that saved colleagues hours per week.
Has owned financial reporting, taxes, or vendor contracts.
This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate.
What we offer
An opportunity to change the way that scientific research happens
Fast-paced, creative, and collaborative work environment
Significant equity ownership
401k
Medical insurance and dental Insurance
Unlimited PTO
Weekday dinners