Investment Principal

About Foundational Industries

Foundational Industries is an investment platform and operating company catalyzing the reindustrialization of America. We invest in upgrading legacy manufacturing assets with next-generation AI-native robotics systems, combining capital, technology, and operational expertise to modernize U.S. industry. Our firm operates across both a permanent capital vehicle and a dedicated project fund, enabling flexible investment structures across the industrial stack.

The Role

We are hiring a private equity–style investment professional to lead underwriting, business diligence, and capital formation activities across Foundational’s core platforms. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that will partner with the CEO on both deal execution and investor engagement.

You will be responsible for evaluating industrial automation investments, validating the manufacturing unit economics and potential margin uplift from AI-robotics, and supporting the capital stack for both Foundational Industries and its investment vehicles. You must be equally comfortable running financial models and investor decks as you are walking a factory floor.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Underwriting: Lead diligence on manufacturing facility acquisitions and automation retrofit opportunities. Build financial models to assess margin uplift from automation and on-shoring strategies.

• Investment Memos & IC Process: Draft compelling internal and external materials to support deal execution and investor communications.

• Capital Formation: Partner with the CEO and capital markets team to raise capital from institutional LPs, family offices, and strategic investors across Foundational's investment vehicles.

• Origination & Relationship Management: Engage with business owners, investment bankers, corporate development teams, and other origination channels to identify and qualify potential opportunities.

• Execution Support: Serve as deal quarterback during execution—managing cross-functional workstreams, coordinating with legal, technical, and operating teams, and ensuring speed with discipline.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Mission Aligned: Shares our passion that reindustrialization is critical for the national and economic security of the US.

• 10+ Years of Experience: Likely background in private equity, investment banking, corporate development, or an investment-oriented role within an industrial operator or strategic investor.

• Strong Underwriting Skills: Ability to model and diligence real-world manufacturing economics, particularly understanding how automation impacts cost structure, throughput, and gross margins.

• Industrial + Capital Markets Fluency: Experience in industrial or infrastructure investing is ideal with a strong interest in technology.

• Credibility with Investors: Can engage confidently with sophisticated LPs and co-investors.

Why Join Foundational?

• Be a founding member of a platform pioneering American reindustrialization with AI-native technologies

• Sit at the intersection of private equity, deep tech, and real asset investing

• Partner closely with operators and technologists to execute breakthrough projects

• Accelerate your career into a broader leadership role at a company with national impact

Logistics & Compensation

• Location: We are primarily New York–based. We prefer candidates who can be in NYC regularly; for truly exceptional profiles outside the area, we will consider hybrid or remote arrangements with periodic time on‑site.

• Work Model: In‑office 3–4 days per week, with greater flexibility during July/August.

• Compensation: Market‑competitive base and benefits, performance‑based bonus, and meaningful long‑term upside as an early member of a fast‑growing team.

• Compensation Philosophy: Our philosophy is simple: we compensate exceptional outcomes exceptionally.