Primary Labs is looking for an Incubation Associate to explore the frontier of semiconductor and compute infrastructure and turn technical breakthroughs into company opportunities. This role is open to candidates based in San Francisco.
This is not a traditional role. As an Incubation Associate, you will work directly with the AI Infrastructure Investment team to identify, validate, and shape new company ideas. You’ll move from exploration to conviction quickly, helping determine which technical breakthroughs in silicon, systems, and compute can underpin venture-scale businesses.
You’ll report to Partner Brian Schechter, who has backed and sits on the board of companies like Etched and Tabs, and is actively incubating at the intersection of compute and semiconductors. We’ve hit an inflection point: demand for AI compute is exploding, and the underlying hardware stack — power, cooling, packaging and more — needs to keep pace. We’re exploring incubation opportunities here.
You will operate at the edge of emerging compute infrastructure — evaluating new silicon architectures, benchmarking hardware performance, and building relationships across the chip design, fabrication, and systems ecosystem. The systems you build will not live as experiments — they will serve as the technical foundation for new ventures incubated within Primary Labs.