CTO

Founding CTO — AI / Enterprise Technology

Location: New York City — 5 days onsite

Compensation: $200K base + 10% equity

We're working with an early-stage AI company that's already generating strong revenue and serving major private equity firms and enterprise clients.

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.

This is a builder's role, not a traditional executive management position.

Responsibilities

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 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.

Ideal candidate: A technically exceptional builder who wants meaningful ownership, significant equity, and the opportunity to shape an AI company from its early stages.