[Hiring] Chief Technology Officer @Toptal

Role Description

As Chief Technology Officer, you will drive execution for the product and engineering teams and put AI at the core of everything the company builds. You will own Toptal’s full technical architecture and build it AI-first—utilizing best practices for agentic engineering.

• Create and own the AI architecture and best practices for the company.
• Build and fine-tune foundation models from the ground up.
• Engineer best-in-class harnesses and create best practices for agentic engineering.
• Set the technical direction and hold cadenced meetings to turn technical strategy into production-ready outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with Product to design infrastructure that exposes Toptal’s core business logic.
• Own resourcing and workforce planning, scoping work, sizing teams, and defining roles.
• Lead the team, set standards, and develop people against those standards.
• Stay ahead of AI advancements and coach engineers on agentic best practices.
• Drive high-energy execution and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required; an advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering.
• Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering.
• Experience with agentic systems deployed at scale against real business processes.
• Rigor about evaluation and the ability to explain model improvements.
• Command of the economics underneath AI technologies.
• Proven ownership of resourcing and workforce planning.
• Currently hands-on with coding and design documents.
• Experience scaling and modernizing a large existing codebase.
• Experience leading a globally distributed, remote team.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Speed, ownership, and quality in decision-making.

Requirements

• Regularly attend scheduled virtual team meetings on camera.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Use all required digital collaboration tools.
• Prioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines.

Benefits

• This is a remote position.
• Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.