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Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO)

FutureSight · Seattle, WA · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteOTHR$100/hrFull-time

About the role

This is a co-founder partnership with founder-level equity and authority, not a salaried executive role. We are looking for someone who can take a vague problem, frame it clearly, design the right system, and turn it into something customers actually use and trust.

Responsibilities

  • Set the venture's technical direction and lead its execution
  • Own problem framing, architecture, system design, and product judgment from day one
  • Translate rough product intent into structure, context, and specs that both humans and AI systems can execute against
  • Use modern tools and frontier models to move fast without sacrificing quality or maintainability
  • Design agentic systems with first-principles thinking and know when orchestration adds genuine leverage versus when simplicity is the better call
  • Be the primary technical voice in early customer conversations, understanding real workflows and shaping the right product
  • Prove there is something worth scaling before thinking about scaling it, focusing on traction first and team-building second
  • Contribute to fundraising, from investor conversations to due diligence
  • Recruit and grow a technical team when the time is right
  • Establish the cultural foundation of the company

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 and a bias for simplicity and maintainability
  • Rigorous about verification — feedback loops, evaluation, and systems that can be trusted
  • Prior experience as a technical co-founder or early engineering leader

Qualifications

  • Strong translation layer skills — able to turn messy product intent into clear structure, constraints, and specs that both humans and AI systems can act upon
  • Close to the customer, comfortable in customer conversations, and able to let real workflows shape what you build
  • Founder at heart — energized by ambiguity, able to go far alone, and ready to commit fully

Skills

  • Frontier models
  • LLM-based systems
  • Agentic architectures
  • System design
  • Product judgment

Benefits

  • Founder-level equity with meaningful ownership from inception
  • Founder-level authority, including co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy
  • Pre-seed capital committed by FutureSight for early hires and MVP development, with potential for follow-on funding
  • A proven process and playbook for taking ventures from 0 to 1, informed by our team's prior experience and mistakes
  • Venture building and scaling resources, including embedded design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day one
  • Embedded investor and advisor network across B2B AI and early-stage capital markets
  • A true co-creation model in which you operate as CTO with FutureSight's cross-functional team as your partner — building alongside you

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

  • Embedded investor and advisor network across B2B AI and early-stage capital markets
  • A true co-creation model in which you operate as CTO with FutureSight's cross-functional team as your partner — building alongside you

Application

Please submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, and a brief note on why this venture aligns with your goals as a founder. We will move quickly for the right candidate.

FutureSight

FutureSight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and experiences.

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