About this opportunity
Aonics lists this Chief of Staff opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Aonics is a Physical AI company building the operator layer for the field: the intelligence that commands fleets of autonomous robots inspecting and maintaining physical infrastructure. We start with solar construction and maintenance, where hundreds of thousands of panels per site have made manual inspection structurally impossible. Our rovers run fully autonomously across utility-scale sites, carrying radiometric thermal, RGB, and LiDAR sensors that find component-level defects and tag them on the asset’s digital twin. Photon, our AI assistant, lets a single remote operator command the fleet and direct its work in natural language. We are a venture-backed team based in San Francisco, with robots deployed at customer sites across the US, Europe, and India.
The Role
You will run the company outside of engineering. As our first operations hire, you will own hiring, HR, compliance, and the office, and you will build the systems for each rather than inherit them. This is a high-ownership role working directly with the founders; the scope is everything that has to work for a hardware company to scale, and most of it does not exist yet.
Responsibilities
Own hiring end to end: sourcing, scheduling, candidate experience, offers, and onboarding
Own HR operations: payroll, benefits, PTO, contractor agreements, and employee records
Own compliance: entity and state registrations, insurance, immigration filings, and customer-site requirements
Run the office and field logistics: vendors, equipment, deployment travel, and team offsites
Manage the founders’ calendars and priorities, and prepare board and investor materials
Support GTM: keep the CRM current, prepare customer-facing collateral, and own marketing design across the website, decks, and social
Build the internal systems and documentation the team runs on as we grow
Requirements
4+ years in operations, chief of staff, executive support, or a similar generalist role at a startup
Track record of owning HR, admin, or compliance work end to end without an existing playbook
Excellent written communication and sound judgment handling confidential information
Highly organized under ambiguity; able to hold many small things at once without dropping them
Able to work independently on a small team with limited process
Based in San Francisco and on-site; this role does not work remotely
Preferred
Experience at a hardware, robotics, or energy company
Familiarity with US employment compliance and immigration filings such as H-1B, O-1, or TN
GTM support experience: CRM hygiene, marketing operations, or sales enablement
Design ability in Figma, Canva, or similar for decks, collateral, and social
Experience supporting a founder or executive directly
Exposure to finance operations: payroll, AP/AR, or expense management
Details
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Worksite address
san francisco, CA, 94199, US
Who can apply
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