Chief of Staff
San Francisco, CAFull-time$120–170K/yrSeen 2 days agoStill listed 2 days ago
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Job overview
Darwin is building general-purpose robot technicians that assemble and maintain machines, beginning with data centers. The Chief of Staff works directly with the CEO across customer development, strategy, growth, recruiting, company operations, and special projects. The role suits an exceptional generalist who can independently execute ambiguous work, communicate with external stakeholders, and take ownership across the company. A robotics background is not required.
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Full job description
The Mission Every machine is built and repaired by skilled hands. The world needs more of them. At Darwin, we're building general-purpose robot technicians that assemble and maintain the machines civilization runs on. We're starting with data centers, where assembly, commissioning, and maintenance require dexterity, precision, and tool use. Our robots learn these tasks from demonstrations rather than being explicitly programmed for each workflow. We're a small team building the intelligence, hardware, and company to bring these robots into the real world. What You'll Work On
- Customer Development & Partnerships: Build relationships with data center operators, hyperscalers, and AI hardware manufacturers. Identify opportunities and drive deployment discussions.
- Strategy & Execution: Work directly with the CEO to evaluate opportunities and turn ambiguous problems into concrete outcomes.
- Growth & Communications: Drive outbound, marketing, company messaging, and external relationships.
- Recruiting: Identify and recruit exceptional engineers, researchers, and operators.
- Company Operations: Own projects across finance, legal, compliance, procurement, and operations.
- Special Projects: Take ownership of whatever matters most, from coordinating deployments to sourcing hardware.
Who You Are You're an exceptional generalist with high agency, strong judgment, and the ability to execute independently. You can take ambiguous problems from idea to completion without detailed instructions. You're an excellent communicator who can represent Darwin with customers, partners, investors, and candidates. You're analytical, resourceful, and comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on execution. You don't need a robotics background, but you're intellectually curious and excited about building a consequential technology company. You want to operate like a founder, taking ownership wherever the company needs you most. Work Eligibility Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not currently sponsor work visas.
How this job compares
Set against the 549 open Chief of Staff jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–170K/yr
- California median$165–225K/yr126 salary ranges
- US median$148–205K/yr404 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $145K, is 27% below the California median midpoint ($198K) — in the lowest quarter of Chief of Staff salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 163 open Chief of Staff jobs in California and 549 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Chief of Staff postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 446 postings).
- Education
- 141 of the 549 open Chief of Staff jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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