Open Core Ventures - CTO

• Defining the vision. What should this company become? What's the product roadmap that turns open-source adoption into a billion-dollar enterprise business? You'll own that strategy. • Defining the vision. • Building the foundation. You're writing code, shipping product, and making architectural decisions that will compound for years. • Building the foundation. • Hiring the team. You'll recruit and lead the engineers who build Redbolt alongside you. • Hiring the team. • Partner with a CEO. Once there's traction, OCV will lead a search for a co-founder CEO to partner with you - someone to own go-to-market, fundraising, and business operations while you own product and engineering. You'll be deeply involved in selecting that person. • Partner with a CEO. • You're a deep technical expert in LLM security, ML engineering, or adjacent infrastructure. You understand how these systems fail and how to prevent them. • You've operated at a high level technically: staff/principal engineer, engineering lead, or founded something yourself. • You're entrepreneurial. You've been waiting for the right opportunity to build something from the ground up, with real support and resources behind you. • You have conviction about the AI security space. You've thought about what needs to exist and have opinions about how to build it. • "As software has eaten the world, open source is eating software." — Peter Levine • Commercial open source software companies have captured hundreds of billions in enterprise value—yet this represents only a fraction of the trillions delivered by OSS today. We're still in the early innings. • GitLab co-founder and executive chair Sid Sijbrandij started Open Core Ventures (OCV) to accelerate this opportunity. We start companies around promising open source projects—the same approach that took GitLab from OSS project to IPO in seven years. • We recruit founders and help them reach escape velocity. We’ve started 30+ companies around open source projects, including Fleet, FlowFuse, and Mermaid Chart. • You can read more about our approach in our public handbook.