AIM - Chief Technology Officer

Remote - Asia-Pacific *2mo ago

Remote C-level APAC Robotics Artificial Intelligence Software Founder Chief Scientific Officer Customer Success

Requirements

• The Deep Tech Veteran: You have a proven track record of landing products with hardware components. You understand that in Physical AI, "shipping" means the machine is moving dirt autonomously in a remote desert or a defense theater. • The Deep Tech Veteran: • landing products with hardware components • The Hypergrowth Expert: You have scaled technical organizations within high-stakes, fast-moving startups. You thrive in the chaos of scaling and know how to build resilient systems under pressure. • The Hypergrowth Expert: • The Realist: You've led orgs where the hard problems were physical, not architectural. You know the stakes of production environments. You can tell your team when SaaS playbooks apply and when they don't. • The Realist • The Autonomous Executor: You possess a "Founder mindset." You don't wait for a manual; you build the manual. You take the mission, define the technical path, and execute with precision and attention to important details. • The Autonomous Executor: • The Ecosystem Visionary: You see beyond the individual machine. You understand how to build a platform that automates an entire industrial ecosystem with our customers and business partners. • The Ecosystem Visionary: • 10+ years of technical leadership experience (CTO, Head of Eng) in Autonomous Vehicles or Deep Tech. • 10+ years • Autonomous Vehicles or Deep Tech • Direct experience landing hardware-integrated products in production environments. • Direct experience landing hardware-integrated products • Track record of building and leading orgs that shipped learned systems in unstructured environments. • building and leading orgs that shipped learned systems • Hypergrowth startup background: Proven success in scaling engineering teams during rapid expansion phases. • Hypergrowth startup background: • Deep technical fluency in AI/ML stacks, robotics software, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. • Based in or excited to relocate to the Greater Seattle Area. • Greater Seattle Area

Responsibilities

• 1. Landing Deep Tech in the Real World • Hardware-Software Integration: Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle of landing deep tech products that involve sophisticated sensors, ruggedized compute, and heavy-duty hardware components. • Hardware-Software Integration: • Physical AI Deployment: Ensure our AI stack translates flawlessly to the physical world, managing the challenges of edge computing, harsh physical environments, and mission-critical safety. Own the process from data flywheel to safe product rollout. • Physical AI Deployment: • Deep Physical Reality Awareness: You understand embodied AI is not just SaaS. Distribution shift is the norm, sensors degrade, ground truth is whether the machine finished the shift. You fund simulation, field tests, and data infrastructure like products. • Deep Physical Reality Awareness • Production Excellence: Drive scale of the AIM Platform and its distribution across the markets. • Production Excellence: • 2. Automating the Ecosystem • Customer-Centric Architecture: Build technical solutions that integrate seamlessly into our customers' existing workflows, turning isolated machines into a unified, autonomous ecosystem. • Customer-Centric Architecture: • Business Partner Synergy: Collaborate with strategic partners to ensure the AIM platform acts as the universal "brain" across diverse fleets and operational sites. • Business Partner Synergy: • Terraforming at Scale: Lead the development of multi-agent coordination and site-level intelligence that automates the entire value chain of earthmoving. • Terraforming at Scale: • 3. Hypergrowth Technical & Culture Leadership • Scaling the Engine: You have lived through the "hypergrowth" phase of a tech startup. You know how to build and lead a multidisciplinary engineering org (AI, Robotics, Embedded Systems, Hardware) while maintaining breakneck speed. • Scaling the Engine: • Technical Roadmap: Define and execute a roadmap that balances immediate customer needs with the long-term goal of planetary-scale terraforming. • Technical Roadmap: • High-Bar Culture: Maintain a safe and cohesive engineering culture – one that keeps pride in building top notch solutions and customer success top of mind. • High-Bar Culture:

Benefits

• Pedigree: Work with a team of elite operators from tech startups, Google, SpaceX, Waymo, Tesla, Stripe, Amazon. • Pedigree: • Scale: We are solving a trillion-dollar problem at the foundation of the global economy. • Scale: • Impact: Radical autonomy to lead the technical execution of a planetary-scale mission. • Impact: • Maturity: Join a company with real-world production systems and global revenue. • Maturity: