We’re looking for a PhD Research Partner to join Contrarian Ventures
Are you excited about the frontier of deep tech and its role in accelerating the climate transition? We’re hiring a PhD-level researcher to dive into some of the most transformative fields of our time:
🔹 Compute – compute architecture & chips, system & architecture innovation, edge to cloud, efficiency breakthroughs, new paradigms, photonic/optical compute, low-carbon infrastructure
💡 What you’ll do:
Lead on ad hoc research projects into these domains
Work side-by-side with our investment team on live opportunities
Share knowledge through internal sessions that help us (and our portfolio) stay ahead of the curve.
📍 Role details:
10 hrs/week, flexible with your academic schedule
6-month initial engagement, with option to extend
Paid fellowship/research associate contract
Remote position
🌍 Why Contrarian Ventures?
At Contrarian, we’re not just investors - we’re builders. As one of Europe’s leading climate-tech seed funds, we back founders reshaping energy, mobility, compute, and industrial systems for a net-zero world. Joining us means:
Impact at scale: your research will directly shape our investments and accelerate real-world decarbonization.
Hands-on VC exposure: work with founders at the earliest stages and see how frontier research informs capital allocation.
Collaborative culture: small, high-conviction team, with global reach through our network of co-investors.
If you’re a PhD researcher looking to bridge academia and venture capital - and want your work to have immediate climate impact - we’d love to hear from you.
Apply here by Nov 21st