Every wheel is a sensor waiting to be heard. A modern vehicle carries well over a hundred sensors, and yet the one place where everything comes together - the contact between the tire and the road - remains a blind spot. GAIDA closes that gap. Our acoustic sensing technology, a combination of proprietary hardware and software, listens to the tire–road contact and delivers a data tier no vehicle has had before: the foundation for pushing performance and safety to their true limits. We are a founding team of RWTH Aachen researchers and industry R&D engineers. Our first market is motorsport, where teams and manufacturers pay for exactly this kind of edge. The road beyond it is much bigger: the same data that finds performance on track makes future mobility safer on the road. Why now: we are preparing our application for the EXIST Research Transfer program and want our Business & Finance co-founder in the room for it. You would own the commercial side from day one, shape the business model and go-to-market with us, and grow into the CFO role as the company grows. [Paid full-time employment at the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika), RWTH Aachen, starts with EXIST Phase I, planned for 06/2027.] This is a co-founder position, not a job: co-founder equity, a real seat at the table, and direct collaboration with experienced engineers inside RWTH Aachen's innovation ecosystem. Interested? Send a short introduction, your CV and a few lines on why you want to build this with us via email or LinkedIn. We'll set up a call to get to know each other and walk you through the technology, the plan and the details.
