Business Development / MBA Co-Founder

About the role

ChillQuanta is seeking a business co-founder to help transition their electro-optic spectrometer technology from a lab prototype to a commercial instrument. The role involves defining the company strategy, managing fundraising, and establishing commercial operations for the quantum and semiconductor metrology market. You will work alongside a founding team of scientists to determine the path between licensing or building a startup.

Responsibilities

• Help decide and execute the path from lab prototype to company including incorporation and go-to-market strategy.
• Own fundraising strategy and investor relations.
• Partner with the technical team to turn the lab prototype into an automated, sellable instrument.
• Build relationships with semiconductor and quantum chip makers as early customers and design partners.
• Establish the commercial and operational foundation including pricing and business models.

Required skills

• Business Development
• Go-to-market strategy
• Fundraising
• Deep tech
• Semiconductor industry

Nice to have

• Quantum technology
• Scientific instrumentation
• AI
• Machine Learning

Qualifications

• MBA-level commercial experience
• Experience in deep-tech or scientific instrumentation

Benefits

• Equity

About the Company

ChillQuanta is developing an electro-optic spectrometer for inspecting and characterizing photonic qubits, aiming to replace or combine existing methods with a new non-destructive technique. The company is currently based at Ruhr University Bochum and has a lab prototype benchmarked against single-atom data.