Lavendo - Field CTO
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Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems • 5+ years of experience in AI, HPC, and/or robotics with exposure to production or large-scale systems • Prior experience in a senior technical leadership role (Field CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal Architect, or Distinguished Engineer) • Dual-competency: equally comfortable drawing distributed system architecture for engineers and communicating business value to a CEO • GTM fluency — proven experience partnering with Sales to close large enterprise deals and enabling field teams with technical assets • Product-minded leadership: experience defining platform or product strategy from market feedback, not just executing technical tickets • Strong hands-on understanding of GPU-centric infrastructure, high-performance compute, storage, and networking • Robotics fluency: familiarity with Physical AI workflows including simulation, synthetic data generation, training pipelines, and real-world deployment • Executive presence and strong communication skills — able to influence product teams and leadership through clarity and credibility • Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments at hyperscalers, cloud platforms, or advanced AI startups • Key Success Drivers • Key Success Drivers • You think in systems — able to see both the architectural details and the strategic picture simultaneously • You are energized by ambiguity and thrive in early-stage, category-defining environments • You are a natural relationship builder who earns trust with technical and executive stakeholders alike • You have a bias toward ownership — you don't wait for a playbook, you write it • You are deeply curious about the frontier of Physical AI and motivated by the idea of helping intelligence move from the data center into the real world
Responsibilities
• Executive Technical Leadership: Serve as the external "CTO" face to Physical AI customers, partners, and ecosystem stakeholders, building trust with executive peers • Executive Technical Leadership: • Lighthouse Deal Support: Partner with Sales leadership to close strategic deals by leading architectural workshops and aligning technical roadmaps with customer goals • Lighthouse Deal Support: • Technical Product Strategy: Translate bespoke customer needs into clear, scalable requirements for product, engineering, and infrastructure teams • Technical Product Strategy: • Field Enablement: Act as a force multiplier for the sales organization by developing technical narratives, reference architectures, and training materials to upskill Field SAs and Sellers • Field Enablement: • Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and GTM teams so the internal roadmap reflects real market needs • Cross-Functional Alignment: • Architectural Guidance: Help customers maximize value from platform services while identifying the core "primitives" needed to support end-to-end robotics workflows • Architectural Guidance: • Pattern Recognition: Identify recurring customer pain points across robotics, simulation, and data pipelines to surface product gaps and influence roadmap direction • Pattern Recognition: • Ecosystem & M&A: Partner with simulation platforms and robotics framework vendors to identify integration opportunities and evaluate potential M&A targets • Ecosystem & M&A: • Feedback Loops: Maintain structured internal feedback mechanisms to ensure customer learnings are tracked and acted upon by R&D • Feedback Loops:
Benefits
• On Target Earnings $295K – $365K • Offers Equity • Medical, dental, vision; 401(k); PTO; Mobile & internet stipend • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Our client for this position cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time and can only consider candidates who are currently fully authorized to work in the U.S., e.g. U.S. citizens or Green Card holders. • Please provide your country/state of tax residency. This information is required for proper tax withholding and compliance. • What aspects of your background and experience do you believe make you a strong fit for this role? • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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