Chief Technology Officer

About the role

Lead the technical vision for ØPUS Intelligence. You will own the platform architecture, scale our AI infrastructure, and build the engineering team that delivers the next generation of cultural marketing intelligence. This is a founding-level role with meaningful equity.

Build the models and pipelines that power ØPUS's cultural intelligence engine. You will work across audience analysis, generative campaign tooling, and our proprietary tribal knowledge systems — turning raw cultural signal into actionable marketing intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture and scale AI infrastructure
• Build and lead the engineering team
• Develop and deploy ML systems in production environments
• Work across audience analysis, generative campaign tooling, and proprietary tribal knowledge systems

Requirements

• 10+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3 leading a full-stack product organization
• Deep experience with AI/ML systems at scale — LLMs, vector databases, data pipelines
• Track record of shipping enterprise-grade SaaS products from 0 to production
• Strong opinions about product, culture, and what great engineering teams look like
• 4+ years building and deploying ML systems in production environments
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and vector search
• Proficiency in Python, PyTorch or JAX, and cloud ML infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
• Curiosity about culture, media, and how people actually behave online