Founding Engineering Leader (CTO / VP Engineering)

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We're partnering with one of the most ambitious AI startups in Europe, building a proactive AI assistant designed to help billions of users automate conversations, workflows and everyday tasks.

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The product is being built around autonomous AI agents, persistent memory, multi-step reasoning and reliable task execution-solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in production AI.

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We're looking for a Founding CTO to define the company's technical vision and build the engineering organisation from the ground up.

What you'll own\n

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• Define the long-term technology strategy
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• Architect highly scalable AI-native systems
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• Build reliable multi-agent and autonomous AI platforms
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• Lead decisions across LLM infrastructure, distributed systems and developer platforms
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• Recruit and mentor a world-class engineering team
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• Establish engineering culture, technical standards and hiring practices
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• Partner directly with the founders on product and company strategy
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We're interested in CTOs who have built products involving:\n

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• AI Agents
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• LLM platforms
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• Generative AI
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• Autonomous workflows
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• Distributed systems
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• Cloud-native platforms
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• Large-scale backend architecture
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• Event-driven systems
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• Developer platforms
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• Production AI infrastructure
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Experience with technologies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, LangChain, Kubernetes, Kafka, Vector Databases, RAG, MCP, Temporal or similar would be highly advantageous.

Ideal backgrounds\n

Current or previous:

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• Chief Technology Officer
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• Founding CTO
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• Technical Co-Founder
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• VP Engineering
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• Head of Engineering
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• Distinguished Engineer
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• Principal Engineer leading large technical organisations
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From AI startups, AI infrastructure companies, developer tooling, cloud platforms, productivity software or high-growth technology businesses.

You'll be successful if you've:\n

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• Built engineering organisations from the ground up
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• Taken products from concept to production at scale
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• Made architecture decisions that balanced speed with long-term scalability
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• Led teams building distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
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• Hired exceptional engineers and technical leaders
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• Enjoyed remaining hands‑on whilst operating at executive level
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Why join?\n

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• Founding executive position
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• Significant equity opportunity
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• Work directly with an exceptional founding team
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• Solve genuinely difficult AI systems challenges
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• Shape the engineering culture from day one
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• Build technology with the potential to impact millions of users globally
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If you're excited by building category‑defining AI products rather than optimising existing platforms, I'd welcome a confidential conversation.

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Please message me directly or email me to arrange an informal discussion.

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McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

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