Co-Founder, CTO (Construction Robotics)

Marble is a climate tech venture studio. We partner with scientists, engineers, and operators to create companies solving hard climate problems in the world's largest industries.

Our first 13 companies are building transformative products across energy, industry, agriculture, and climate resilience. 100% have been successful in raising follow-on to date. We are looking to partner with exceptional individuals to create our next venture.

The opportunity below is a founding role in our next company creation, which we think will be absolutely massive!

Construction is a $13 trillion industry still operating much as it did decades ago. While other sectors have adopted automation to improve speed and quality, construction remains dependent on manual execution and a shrinking pool of skilled labour.

Experienced tradespeople are retiring faster than they can be replaced, forcing contractors to rely on undertrained labour. The result is systemic: installation errors, rework, material waste, and defects that often only surface once buildings are operational.

At the same time, demand is accelerating with the great buildout of critical infrastructure, across energy systems, data centres, cold storage, factories and building retrofits. These environments are complex and unforgiving, and the gap between what the industry is asked to deliver and what its workforce can execute is widening every year.

We are building a vertically integrated robotics platform that delivers a core construction trade as an outcome. We're targeting a key segment that represents 30-50% of building capex, carries rework rates of 10-15%, and is structurally constrained by skilled labour supply across every major market.

Rather than selling tools into a fragmented supply chain, we take ownership of execution end-to-end. Purpose-built hardware handles the physical work; a learned intelligence layer turns every deployment into training data, so the system generalises faster than hand-coded automation ever could.

Owning the full process is also what makes the system compound. Every project becomes proprietary training data, feeding a feedback loop that point solutions and tool vendors cannot access.

• Hands-on ability to design, prototype, and iterate on robotic hardware: positioning, mechanical assemblies, end effectors, force control

• A track record of deploying robotic or automated systems in real operational environments

• Enough perception and localisation knowledge to integrate sensors, process spatial data, and close the loop between the physical platform and a digital model

• Strong software architecture instincts and pragmatism about build-versus-partner trade-offs, including where to leverage foundation models and third-party APIs

• Architecting the full intelligence layer: perception, spatial reasoning, task planning, feedback loops

• Building the data architecture that turns every deployment into training data

• Leading and scaling a technical team across hardware, software, and AI

• A robotics or mechatronics engineer from industrial automation, warehouse, agricultural, or mobile manipulation robotics, or a senior engineer from a first-wave robotics startup, who has owned a physical system end-to-end in a real operational environment and is ready to own the full stack on their next venture

• A physical AI or robotics researcher with genuine hands-on hardware experience beyond simulation

• An engineer from an adjacent field (autonomous vehicles, heavy machinery, mining, offshore, defence, aerospace) who has built real-time systems combining mechanical hardware with perception and planning

We encourage you to apply even if you don't feel you meet every requirement. Above all, we value intelligence, creativity, rapid learning, and the ability to bridge hardware and software to build a world-class product.

We believe that a diverse group of minds is key to solving the climate crisis. We encourage women and people of colour to apply. Studies have shown that under-represented candidates are less likely to apply for an opportunity unless they feel they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and mission-driven cohort. If you’re excited about the programme but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with what you read on our website, we encourage you to apply anyways!

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