Founders Associate

Your Part

Whatever the company needs that the founders can’t get to, you help carry. The remit is deliberately broad and it changes week to week. You take an ambiguous problem, make it concrete, and close it without being told how.

• Help run operations, hiring logistics, finance and legal coordination, tooling, the things that keep the company moving
• Turn open questions into decisions, research a market, scope a partnership, draft the memo, bring back a recommendation
• Build the AI tools and automation that let a small team act like a large one

Your Profile

• You have owned something end to end where the outcome was on you, a company, a project, a team, a hard problem you refused to drop
• High agency and comfortable being the least specialized person in the room, because the job is to become useful fast at whatever is in front of you
• Real hands-on AI ability matters here. You will build the tools and automation that run our operations, so this is not just curiosity about AI, it is using it
• Genuinely interested in data and how a technical company is actually built
• Based in or moving to Munich, and open to travel

Don’t focus on your academic background, tell us about something that you are exceptional at and proud of.

What You Get

• A seat next to the founders on everything, the widest view of the company anyone but us will have
• Real ownership from week one, and the mandate to fix what is broken
• The fastest path to founding or leading something yourself, here or after

About OSM

Energy is a chain of connected optimization problems. Capacity plans shape market exposure. Forecasts and bids shape asset schedules. Prices, grid limits, contracts, and asset state change dispatch. Optimizing each step in isolation leaves value behind.

OSM builds production optimization software for energy. We turn operational data, forecasts, objectives, and constraints into models for capacity planning, day-ahead bidding, storage scheduling, and power dispatch. Exact formulations return feasibility and optimality evidence with the result.

We are an all-technical team of ex-quantum researchers, mathematicians, and database engineers. We do foundational optimization and database research and put it into production. In 2026, two papers behind OSM were accepted at VLDB.