Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

About the role

We are hiring a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to serve as the highest-ranking technical leader at Neuroscale AI and a core member of the founding team. This is a hands-on, high-ownership leadership role for a technically exceptional, product-minded builder who can define architecture, scale engineering, and help turn an ambitious product roadmap into reality. Define and own the overall technical vision, platform architecture, and engineering roadmap in alignment with product strategy and company growth. Lead, recruit, and scale a world-class engineering organization, including hiring standards, team design, mentorship, and technical culture. Oversee the design, development, and reliability of Neuroscale's backend systems, agents, talent matching models, orchestration layers, APIs, data workflows, and ext. integrations. Drive sound architectural choices across backend systems (such as TypeScript/NestJS and Python/FastAPI), frontend applications, and AI/ML infrastructure. Establish and enforce engineering best practices across security, observability, testing, reliability, incident response, and documentation. Build the operational foundation required for scale, including runbooks, deployment patterns, developer tooling, and health metrics for engineering performance. Own the company's compliance and certification roadmap across enterprise trust requirements, including security and privacy frameworks. Represent the company's technical strategy externally with customers, partners, analysts, investors, and research institutions. This is a Individual Contributor & Leadership position, if this isn't you, don't bother applying . Some interesting problems that you WILL work on: Intelligently match millions of candidates and companies with our unique and proprietary data source driven by world-class recruiters Design monetary and social incentives to define how recruiters should work and help them earn more than ever Build core tooling to power recruiter workflows and enable accurate candidate matching (AI sourcing, notetaking, sequencing, browsers extension, etc.) Create a new paradigm for how world-class talent finds their dream job via recruiters and lay the foundations to build the next Indeed/LinkedIn. Hack away at creative ways to acquire marketplace liquidity in new industries like Legal, Finance, Healthcare, Blue Collar, & AI. The Compensation & Benefits: $150,000 - $200,000 base salary. Real compensation for people who do real work. On-Target Earnings (OTE) up to $350,000. You get extra-rewarded as we grow. 2 - 4% equity. You are not just a founding engineer. You are an owner. $250,000 in AI tooling credits. Cursor, Claude, whatever you need. We don't cap your leverage. Health, Vision and Dental. 50% reimbursed. We take care of the people who take care of the company. Unlimited PTO. We measure output, not hours. Take the trip. Remote or in-person. We have 2 modern campuses in Reston & Sterling Virginia. Northern Virginia is what happens when defense money meets startup ambition. It's the SF of the east coast and we've planted our flag here. Paid engineering conferences. NVIDIA GTC, NeurIPS, and anything else that makes you sharper. If it makes you better, we pay for it. Direct access to the best. You will work alongside founders, operators, and advisors who have built and scal