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About the Role
Mojay Global Holding is seeking an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) in Abu Dhabi to build venture-scale companies in Physical AI. The role is for experienced founders with expertise in robotics, computer vision, and AI.
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Responsibilities
- Build venture scale companies in Physical AI
- Engage in customer discovery and product market validation
- Recruit, lead, and motivate high performing technical teams
- Take products from concept to commercialization
Requirements
- Previous founder, co founder, or senior leadership experience in a technology startup
- Demonstrated experience in robotics, including industrial, service, autonomous, or mobile robotics
- Strong expertise in computer vision, including perception systems, object detection, tracking, inspection, navigation, or visual AI applications
- Practical experience applying AI and machine learning to real world physical systems
- Experience taking products from concept to commercialization
- Strong customer discovery and product market validation capability
- Ability to recruit, lead, and motivate high performing technical teams
- Experience working with multidisciplinary hardware and software engineering teams
- Strong commercial judgment and venture building mindset
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Candidate Profile
- The Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) should combine founder capability, technical depth, and commercial judgment.
- The role is intended for entrepreneurs capable of building venture scale companies in Physical AI rather than managing mature businesses.
Essential Requirements
- Previous founder, co founder, or senior leadership experience in a technology startup.
- Demonstrated experience in robotics, including industrial, service, autonomous, or mobile robotics.
- Strong expertise in computer vision, including perception systems, object detection, tracking, inspection, navigation, or visual AI applications.
- Practical experience applying AI and machine learning to real world physical systems.
- Experience taking products from concept to commercialization.
- Strong customer discovery and product market validation capability.
- Ability to recruit, lead, and motivate high performing technical teams.
- Experience working with multidisciplinary hardware and software engineering teams.
- Strong commercial judgment and venture building mindset.
Preferred Experience
- Physical AI
- Autonomous systems
- Edge AI
- Sensor fusion
- SLAM and localization
- Robotics simulation and digital twins
- Industrial automation
- Manufacturing technology
- Warehouse automation
- Drone or aerial robotics
- Medical robotics
- Human robot interaction
Personal Attributes
- Founder mentality with a strong bias for execution.
- Comfortable operating under uncertainty.
- Evidence based decision maker.
- Highly resourceful and capital efficient.
- Strong systems thinker with commercial instincts.
- Able to bridge engineering, research, and business.
- Motivated by long term ownership and value creation.
Compensation
- The Entrepreneur in Residence is engaged to create long term shareholder value. Accordingly, compensation is primarily equity based and aligned with the successful creation and scaling of new ventures.
- Base Compensation: No fixed salary. Mojay holding may provide a modest monthly stipend and reimburse approved business expenses during the incubation period.
- Venture Equity: For each venture approved and funded by Mojay, the EIR will be eligible to receive founder equity of up to 20%, subject to four year vesting, one year cliff, monthly vesting thereafter, continued active involvement, and future dilution through fundraising.
- Performance Based Equity: Additional equity may be awarded at Mojay’s discretion upon achieving significant milestones, including successful customer validation, MVP completion, first commercial revenue, strategic partnerships, external funding, or material enterprise value creation.
- Liquidity: The EIR participates in the economic upside of vested equity upon an acquisition, IPO, secondary sale, or other approved liquidity event.
- Governance: All equity awards are subject to Good Leaver and Bad Leaver provisions, intellectual property assignment, confidentiality obligations, restrictive covenants, and Mojay’s shareholder and equity incentive agreements.
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