Chief Technology Officer - US-Based

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About the role

What you'll do

• Conceive the engineering and AI strategy and bring a proactive plan to the CEO.
• Own the AI technology strategy including model selection, fine-tuning, harness design, orchestration, retrieval, and cost control.
• Deploy agentic engineering at scale against core business processes like matching, vetting, onboarding, and delivery.
• Make AI quality measurable by owning evals, regression suites, and review loops.
• Raise output per engineer through AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations.
• Own resourcing and workforce planning: scope the roadmap, plan headcount, write specs, and hit hiring commitments.
• Maintain the end-to-end architecture, including throughput, reliability, and the platform layer.
• Manage the engineering and AI cost structure, including inference and token spend.
• Assess talent honestly, develop people against the bar, and hold standards as the organization grows.

What they're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including time as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or direct report to one at scale.
• Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering: foundation models, agentic architectures, and fine-tuning.
• Proven experience shipping and operating agentic systems at scale with measured business outcomes.
• Ability to build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up.
• Current hands-on coding ability and command of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience leading a globally distributed, remote team at a technology or hyper-growth company.
• Experience scaling and modernizing a large existing codebase and replacing load-bearing systems in flight.
• Command of AI economics: model routing, inference capacity, and latency/cost budgets.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a technical field.
• Experience with high-volume, two-sided marketplaces or multi-tenant platforms.

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