[Hiring] Chief Technology Officer @Neuroscale AI

Role Description

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 external 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 9am - 9pm, 6 days a week 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, browser 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.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior technical leadership role.
• Strong background in software engineering and architecture.
• Experience with AI/ML technologies and their application in recruiting.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with backend systems, APIs, and data workflows.
• Expertise in TypeScript/NestJS and Python/FastAPI.
• Experience in building and scaling engineering teams.
• Knowledge of security and privacy frameworks.

Benefits

• $150,000 - $200,000 base salary.
• On-Target Earnings (OTE) up to $350,000.
• 2 - 4% equity.
• $250,000 in AI tooling credits.
• Health, Vision, and Dental - 50% reimbursed.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Remote or in-person work options.
• Paid engineering conferences.
• Direct access to founders, operators, and advisors.
• Opportunity to do meaningful work in a short time frame.

Company Description

Neuroscale is on a mission to transform talent acquisition into a science. Our vision is to build the most intelligent recruiting platform in the world, where sourcing, screening, outreach, & hiring for the most ambitious companies in the world happen in one unified system, powered by AI that actually understands hiring.

Today, Neuroscale is adding over $5M in pipeline every month across startups, enterprise, and the federal government. Growth continues to accelerate, with gross pipeline increasing roughly 75% month over month.

We built Arbi, the first end-to-end AI recruiting platform that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and autonomous AI sourcing agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.