Roadrunner Venture Studios is the nation’s leading platform for founding breakthrough ventures in deep technology. Our mission is to turn frontier tech into breakthrough companies for the benefit of the American people. Together with engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, we build products, create business models, recruit teams, align companies with their first customers, and provide initial funding. Our Venture Studio focuses on advanced energy, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and next generation compute.
At Roadrunner, the future doesn’t just happen — we make it happen. We take our work seriously, without taking ourselves too seriously. We believe progress must be imagined and built — and we build it together.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly analytical, finance-driven Analyst to join our New Mexico studio and support the creation of new deep-tech ventures. This exciting role sits at the intersection of financial modeling, technology evaluation, and venture creation.
This is a model-first role. You will translate technical concepts and emerging markets into clear economic frameworks, unit economics, and investment-grade financial models that inform whether and how we build companies.
The ideal candidate is a financial modeling powerhouse in the making—someone who can take incomplete data, ambiguous inputs, and early-stage technologies and build structured models that drive real decisions. You should be able to move quickly from first principles to defensible assumptions, creating clarity where none exists.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Modeling & Investment Analysis
Build and maintain bottom-up financial models for new venture concepts, including revenue models, cost structures, and capital requirements
Develop unit economics, pricing strategies, and margin profiles across a range of deep-tech business models
Conduct scenario analyses and sensitivity modeling to evaluate risk, upside, and capital efficiency
Translate technical milestones into financial implications (cost to scale, time to commercialization, capital intensity)
Support investment decisions through clear, data-driven financial outputs and structured analysis
Market & Commercial Analysis
Support synthesis of market dynamics into quantifiable inputs for financial models
Identify commercialization pathways and map them to revenue timing and scaling assumptions
Engage potential customers to validate willingness to pay and demand drivers, feeding into model assumptions
Analyze competitive landscapes through an economic lens (cost position, pricing power, defensibility)
Venture Creation Support
Partner with Founders-in-Residence and studio leadership to translate ideas into financially viable businesses
Contribute to business cases and investment memos grounded in rigorous financial logic
Support development of go-to-market strategies informed by unit economics and capital efficiency
Assist in building pitch decks and fundraising materials, with a focus on financial clarity
Studio Operations & Model Development
Help build and refine repeatable financial modeling frameworks for venture creation
Support development of assumptions libraries, benchmarks, and modeling best practices
Coordinate with product, engineering, and finance teams to ensure alignment between technical development and financial outcomes
Provide structured economic analysis to support internal decision-making
Preferred Qualifications
1–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or management consulting
Strong foundation in financial modeling (Excel or equivalent) and comfort building models from scratch
Ability to translate complex or technical inputs into clear economic frameworks
Experience working with imperfect or early-stage data, forming assumptions from first principles
Technical background (engineering, physics, math, computer science, or similar) preferred
Strong communication skills—able to clearly explain financial concepts
High intellectual curiosity and comfort in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Must be based in or willing to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico
Roadrunner Venture Studios is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. We strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, venture capital, or management consulting
- Strong foundation in financial modeling (Excel or equivalent)
- Technical background (engineering, physics, math, computer science, or similar)
- Strong communication skills
What We Do
Roadrunner Venture Studios is a company creation factory. We co-found breakthrough deep-tech ventures with the nation’s most brilliant scientists, engineers, and innovators in Energy, Space, Clean Tech, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Quantum, and High Performance Computing. Our team gets involved at the earliest possible moment — often when a company is just a whiteboard scribble, a concept modeled in wire-frame, or as founders are puzzling through how to design a pitch deck or process payroll — and rapidly accelerates product development, commercialization, and recruitment. We are the ultimate company “starter-kit,” equipping our portfolio companies with everything they need to go from the kernel of an idea to a venture-backed growth engine. Our promise is clear: our founders leave our studio with a company, a check, a customer, and a team.
