Co-founder & CTO

3 days ago

San Francisco, CA, United States ENSUC Remote Full-time $180,000 - $300,000

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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