Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO)
Skills
Co-CreationContextCross-Functional Team LeadershipEngineeringFundraisingModel-View-PresenterTeam Building
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Proven track record of shipping AI products to real users under real-world constraints
- Deep practical experience with frontier models LLM-based systems and agentic architectures
- Strong system design instincts with a bias for simplicity and maintainability
- Ability to turn messy product intent into clear structure constraints and specs
- Comfortable speaking with customers and shaping product from real workflows
- Rigorous about verification feedback loops evaluation and trusted systems
- Prior experience as a technical co-founder or early engineering leader
- Founder mindset with full-time exclusive commitment to a single venture
Nice to have
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Customer closeness
- Bias for simplicity
- High ownership
- Founder mindset
Day to day
- Set the venture's technical direction from day one and turn vague product intent into clear architecture and specs
- Lead build execution using modern tools and frontier models while balancing speed with maintainability
- Serve as the primary technical voice in customer conversations and shape the product around real workflows
- Contribute to fundraising and help recruit the technical team when the timing is right
Hiring process
- Submit resume
- Submit LinkedIn profile
- Submit brief note on venture alignment