Co-founder & CTO
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Employment type
Full-time, founding team Location: Remote-first Reports to: CEO and founder
Role summary
The CTO is the technical co-founder who owns Ensuc's technology direction, engineering quality and technical credibility with customers and investors. You will lead the company from a validated product to production deployments, and build the engineering organization behind it.
Responsibilities
- Set the technology vision, roadmap and architecture decisions for the Chrono product line.
- Lead hardware validation and the first design-partner deployments.
- Recruit, lead and mentor the early engineering team.
- Work with the CEO on intellectual property strategy and technical diligence.
- Represent the company technically to customers, partners and investors.
- Make build, buy and open-source decisions, and manage technical risk.
- Establish engineering practices for security, reliability and performance.
Required skills and experience
- 8+ years in software engineering, with deep distributed systems or infrastructure experience.
- 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role (Staff, Principal, Head of, Director or CTO).
- Production ownership of large-scale infrastructure software, ideally cluster scheduling, orchestration or resource management.
- Hands-on experience with GPU, HPC or cloud-scale compute environments.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (C++, Rust or Go).
- Experience hiring and leading engineering teams.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and executive audiences.
Preferred skills
- Kubernetes scheduling ecosystem or Slurm experience.
- Applied optimization or machine learning in systems settings.
- Prior startup, founder or early-employee experience.
- Experience with security-sensitive or on-premises deployments.
Compensation
Founding-team equity with vesting. Co-founder salary and equity terms will be defined and agreed with the founder as the company's funding progresses.
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to sign a mutual NDA before discussing product details, equity or financials.
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