Job Details
Founding Engineering Leader (CTO / VP Engineering)
BBBH170372_1783955338
Posted: 13/07/2026
- Significant Equity + Benefits
- London
- Permanent
We're partnering with one of the most ambitious AI startups in Europe, building a proactive AI assistant designed to help billions of users automate conversations, workflows and everyday tasks.
The product is being built around autonomous AI agents, persistent memory, multi-step reasoning and reliable task execution-solving some of the hardest engineering challenges in production AI.
We're looking for a Founding CTO to define the company's technical vision and build the engineering organisation from the ground up.
What you'll own
- Define the long-term technology strategy
- Architect highly scalable AI-native systems
- Build reliable multi-agent and autonomous AI platforms
- Lead decisions across LLM infrastructure, distributed systems and developer platforms
- Recruit and mentor a world-class engineering team
- Establish engineering culture, technical standards and hiring practices
- Partner directly with the founders on product and company strategy
We're interested in CTOs who have built products involving:
- AI Agents
- LLM platforms
- Generative AI
- Autonomous workflows
- Distributed systems
- Cloud-native platforms
- Large-scale backend architecture
- Event-driven systems
- Developer platforms
- Production AI infrastructure
Experience with technologies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, LangGraph, LangChain, Kubernetes, Kafka, Vector Databases, RAG, MCP, Temporal or similar would be highly advantageous.
Ideal backgrounds
Current or previous:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Founding CTO
- Technical Co-Founder
- VP Engineering
- Head of Engineering
- Distinguished Engineer
- Principal Engineer leading large technical organisations
From AI startups, AI infrastructure companies, developer tooling, cloud platforms, productivity software or high-growth technology businesses.
You'll be successful if you've:
- Built engineering organisations from the ground up
- Taken products from concept to production at scale
- Made architecture decisions that balanced speed with long-term scalability
- Led teams building distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
- Hired exceptional engineers and technical leaders
- Enjoyed remaining hands-on whilst operating at executive level
Why join?
- Founding executive position
- Significant equity opportunity
- Work directly with an exceptional founding team
- Solve genuinely difficult AI systems challenges
- Shape the engineering culture from day one
- Build technology with the potential to impact millions of users globally
If you're excited by building category-defining AI products rather than optimising existing platforms, I'd welcome a confidential conversation.
📩 Please message me directly or email me to arrange an informal discussion.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.
Dan Fisher
Director | Development & Technology