Chief Technology Officer

We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer with 5+ years of experience to own the technical vision and lead engineering at a well-funded AI safety applied-research lab. You'll work alongside the founders to build evaluations that identify AI's legal failure modes, create training environments that reduce them, and ship real-time guardrails that enforce compliance in production — starting with financial services. What will you be doing? Building legal evaluations (RL environments) to measure AI's failure modes in financial services Productionizing the existing research MVP into real-time guardrails for design partners Setting technical architecture and research direction alongside the founders Hiring and mentoring engineers in your first year to build out the engineering team Working hands-on with design partners — iterating directly on their needs while building core infrastructure Experience hiring engineers, growing teams, and building systems from 0-1 Experience building eval harnesses, RL environments, or training pipelines Baseline Seniority Experience as a CTO, Head of Engineering, or engineering leader Experience building and deploying AI or LLM products Experience with agent RAG, forward-deployed work, on-prem models, or building evaluation and testing environments Experience building core infrastructure Builder-first co-founder profile, currently writing code and shipping, not managing from a distance US work authorization (visa transfers acceptable) Nice-to-have Experience at fast-paced companies (Ramp, Mercury, Kalshi, or Perplexity) Education Strong university background Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military service, genetic information, or any other status protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Theron Solutions