CTO/ Lead Founding Engineer

About Company: Funded AI Start-up

What You’ll Need to Do

• Own the end-to-end technology strategy and execution for a high-scale AI product.

• Build and ship core product, backend, and AI capabilities hands-on.

• Design cost-efficient, fast, and reliable systems that work well on low-bandwidth and low-end devices.

• Lead LLM strategy: model selection, fine-tuning, evaluation, monitoring, and iteration.

• Ensure platform trustworthiness: privacy, security, bias mitigation, and auditability.

• Scale infrastructure globally with strong monitoring, reliability, and incident response.

• Hire, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering team and culture.

What You’ll Need to Apply

• Experience scaling a product from early stage to meaningful usage.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, strong system design skills across web, backend, data, and AI-heavy systems

• Proven experience running LLMs in production, including fine-tuning and evaluation.

• Ability to optimize for cost, latency, and quality at scale.

• Security- and privacy-first mindset with sensitive data.

• Comfort building for emerging markets (low bandwidth, multilingual, diverse devices).

• Hands-on technical leadership: you can architect, code, review, and mentor.

  What You Can Expect:

  • Competitive ESOP with real influence over product direction and long-term value creation

  • Full technical ownership with flexible working hours and freedom to build, ship, and lead in the way that works best for you.

  
  
  

Due to the high volume of applications we are experiencing, our team will only be in touch with you if your application is shortlisted.