CTO
Job Description
Founding CTO — AI / Enterprise Technology
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Location: New York City — 5 days onsite
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Compensation: $200K base + 10% equity
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We're working with an early-stage AI company that's already generating strong revenue and serving major private equity firms and enterprise clients.
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The company is looking for a Founding CTO who is an exceptional hands-on engineer, capable of building production systems, owning the technical architecture, and helping scale the engineering organization.
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This is a builder's role, not a traditional executive management position.
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Responsibilities
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- Own the company's technical architecture, infrastructure, and engineering direction.
- Spend approximately 30–50% of your time writing production code.
- Design and build AI-powered applications, LLM agents, and workflow automation.
- Develop integrations across enterprise systems, APIs, and complex data sources.
- Work directly with the founders and customers to turn business problems into production solutions.
- Recruit, mentor, and lead a small, high-performing engineering team.
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What We're Looking For
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- Exceptional software engineering ability with proven 0-to-1 product or platform development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building and deploying production AI/LLM applications and agentic workflows.
- Deep understanding of system architecture, databases, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Background as a founding engineer, technical co-founder, staff/principal engineer, or highly technical CTO.
- Comfortable moving quickly, making architectural decisions, and personally delivering solutions.
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Ideal candidate: A technically exceptional builder who wants meaningful ownership, significant equity, and the opportunity to shape an AI company from its early stages.