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Genesis AI

Robotics simulation and AI foundation platform

Head of Marketing

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: San Carlos, CA, USA
In Person
Growth & MarketingMarketing Generalist & Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience in a hardware, robotics, autonomy, aerospace, or similarly technical environment.
  • 0-to-1 startup experience building something from scratch in a high-uncertainty setting.
  • Ability to communicate complex systems clearly without oversimplification.
  • Experience supporting major technical launches or public milestones.
  • Ability to work directly with engineers and research teams.
  • Ability to exercise high ownership, autonomy, and bias for execution.
  • Judgment around credibility, confidentiality, and technical precision.
  • Ability to operate independently without structured playbooks.
Responsibilities
  • Translate research and engineering progress into clear external communication.
  • Partner with founders, business teams, and engineers to prepare milestone announcements, launch materials, and ecosystem updates.
  • Build and maintain a coherent public narrative around Genesis.
  • Design and execute the company's presence at major artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomy, and deep technology conferences.
  • Produce high-fidelity system demonstrations that accurately reflect real-world performance.
  • Run lab visits, partner briefings, and technical press sessions.
  • Create long-form technical explainers, talks, and written materials grounded in engineering accuracy.
  • Support recruiting by articulating the company's mission, roadmap, and standards.
  • Establish editorial and visual standards that reflect rigor and discipline.
  • Build the marketing function from zero and hire selectively as the company scales.
  • Operate hands-on without layers of support or predefined processes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience at an autonomy, aerospace, robotics, or frontier hardware company.
  • Experience communicating safety, reliability, and deployment readiness.
  • Experience running technical demonstrations or field events.

About the company

Genesis AI provides a unified platform that combines robotics simulation, high-fidelity rendering, physics, and foundation models to support advanced robotics and AI development. It offers platform-as-a-service and licensing options for simulating complex scenarios, training robotic systems, and building generative models in realistic virtual environments. Users access an integrated environment where physics, geometry, rendering, and AI model development run in sync, enabling large-scale simulations and reinforcement learning. By merging core capabilities and drawing on experience from Havok, Unity, Autodesk, Google, and Epic Games, Genesis aims to reduce fragmentation and accelerate innovation in robotics and AI.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$105M

Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2024

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What believers are saying

  • LG CNS announced a June 16, 2026 rollout plan across enterprise customers.
  • Reuters reported advanced customer talks in France, Germany, and Italy on May 6, 2026.
  • Genesis raised $105 million seed financing from Eclipse, Khosla, Bpifrance, and Schmidt.

What critics are saying

  • Genesis depends on Wuji Tech hardware co-design, exposing supply-chain and IP leverage.
  • Figure, Tesla Optimus, and Samsung SDS Team REX compress Genesis's industrial window.
  • Advanced talks in France, Germany, and Italy still lack named, contracted customers.

What makes Genesis AI unique

  • Genesis AI bundles GENE-26.5, Genesis Hand 1.0, and simulator into one stack.
  • Its 1:1 human-scale hand transfers worker demonstrations directly into robot control.
  • LG CNS partnership validates cross-platform robotics across manufacturing and logistics deployments.

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Benefits

  • Wellness Program
  • Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Remote Work Options
  • Health Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Stock Options
  • Company Equity
  • Conference Attendance Budget
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Tuition Reimbursement

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

8%

2 year growth

1%
Wired24
Aug 26th, 2026
Robot brain developers still in 'GPT-2 era' as Unitree's $66B valuation nearly halves

Physical AI is advancing rapidly as developers work to improve robot capabilities beyond current limitations. At the recent Actuate conference, attendance tripled to 1,500 participants since its 2023 launch, reflecting growing industry interest. Harry Mellsop of Antioch describes physical AI as being in its "GPT-2 era", requiring more data and computational power to progress. The sector faces a "robotics data crisis" — a shortage of high-quality training data needed for AI models. Genesis AI raised $105 million in seed funding this year. Companies focusing on specific tasks, like Gritt in solar farms and Bedrock in excavation, are successfully deploying robots, whilst general-purpose humanoid robots remain confined to laboratories. Autonomous vehicles lead the field, partly due to easier data collection. Tesla advances with its Optimus robot, whilst Wayve and Uber have opened robotics labs for humanoid development.

PR Newswire
Jun 16th, 2026
Genesis AI and LG CNS partner to deploy general-purpose robots across manufacturing and logistics operations

Genesis AI, a full-stack robotics company, has partnered with LG CNS to deploy general-purpose robots across manufacturing and logistics operations. The multi-phase partnership will begin by evaluating Genesis AI's first robot, Eno, at LG operations in the US and across LG CNS's industrial customer portfolio. Genesis AI builds AI-powered robots capable of performing complex physical tasks across various environments. The company's GENE AI foundation model enables generalisation across tasks, with each new deployment requiring less data and time than the previous one. The partnership will conduct strategic evaluations across LG CNS's enterprise customers, execute pilot programmes to develop deployment playbooks, and ultimately roll out robots to LG Group affiliates and LG CNS customers globally. LG CNS will provide integration expertise to bring the robots into existing workflows at scale.

Business Insider
Jun 16th, 2026
Genesis AI unveils Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot, after raising $105M

Genesis AI, a robotics startup founded in early 2025, has unveiled Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot with two arms but no legs or head. The company has raised $105 million from Eclipse, Khosla Ventures and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Unlike humanoid competitors such as Figure AI and Tesla's Optimus, Eno features a three-panel body that adjusts height and folds when not in use. CEO Zhou Xian said the company plans to produce dozens of robots by year-end, initially targeting manufacturers, logistics companies and laboratories before expanding to service industries and homes. Genesis AI is developing the entire technology stack, including the AI model, training gloves, simulator and robot hardware. The company is deploying wireless gloves to collect data from skilled workers, moving away from teleoperation to generate training data more efficiently.

Bloomberg
Jun 16th, 2026
Ex-Google CEO-backed startup unveils AI-powered industrial robot with LG

Genesis AI, a Paris-based startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has unveiled Eno, an industrial robot powered by artificial intelligence developed in partnership with LG Group. The general-purpose robot can reason, adapt and handle tasks beyond predefined programming, according to the company. Schmidt highlighted Eno's decision-making speed and dexterity, demonstrated by its ability to play the piano. The announcement comes as investors increasingly back humanoid robotics ventures. Genesis AI said the robot represents a significant advance in industrial automation capabilities.

PR Newswire
May 21st, 2026
Genesis AI hires former X and Tesla execs to lead legal and operations after $105M seed round

Genesis AI has appointed two senior executives as it prepares to launch its first general-purpose robot. Damien Kieran, formerly Chief Legal and Privacy Officer at Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity and Chief Privacy Officer at X, joins as Head of Legal. Pally Kumar becomes Head of Operations, bringing leadership experience from Tesla, Amazon, Lyft and Cobot. Kieran will oversee global legal and policy matters, drawing on his expertise in data protection and emerging technologies. Kumar will scale the company's data collection and manufacturing operations, including initiatives using tactile-sensing gloves to capture human skills data for training robotics systems. The appointments follow Genesis AI's recent $105 million seed funding round, backed by Eclipse, Khosla Ventures and Bpifrance, alongside investors including Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel.