Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

About Neuroscale: Neuroscale is on a mission to transform talent acquisition into a science. Our vision is to build the most intelligent recruiting platform in the world, where sourcing, screening, outreach, & hiring happen in one unified system, powered by AI. We built Arbi, the first end-to-end AI recruiting platform that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and autonomous AI sourcing agents.

The Role: We are hiring a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to serve as the highest-ranking technical leader at Neuroscale AI and a core member of the founding team. This is a hands-on, high-ownership leadership role for a technically exceptional, product-minded builder who can define architecture, scale engineering, and help turn an ambitious product roadmap into reality.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall technical vision, platform architecture, and engineering roadmap in alignment with product strategy.
• Lead, recruit, and scale a world-class engineering organization, including hiring standards, team design, mentorship, and technical culture.
• Oversee the design, development, and reliability of Neuroscale's backend systems, agents, talent matching models, orchestration layers, APIs, data workflows, and ext. integrations.
• Drive sound architectural choices across backend systems (such as TypeScript/NestJS and Python/FastAPI), frontend applications, and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across security, observability, testing, reliability, incident response, and documentation.
• Build the operational foundation required for scale, including runbooks, deployment patterns, developer tooling, and health metrics.
• Own the company's compliance and certification roadmap.
• Represent the company's technical strategy externally with customers, partners, and investors.

*Note: This is a 9am - 9pm, 6 days a week position. This is an Individual Contributor & Leadership position, if this isn't you, don't bother applying.

Interesting problems you WILL work on:

• Intelligently match millions of candidates and companies with our unique and proprietary data source.
• Design monetary and social incentives to define how recruiters should work.
• Build core tooling to power recruiter workflows and enable accurate candidate matching (AI sourcing, notetaking, sequencing, browser extension, etc.).
• Create a new paradigm for how world-class talent finds their dream job via recruiters.
• Hack away at creative ways to acquire marketplace liquidity in new industries like Legal, Finance, Healthcare, Blue Collar, & AI.

The Compensation & Benefits

• $150,000 - $200,000 base salary. On-Target Earnings (OTE) up to $350,000.
• 2 - 4% equity. You are not just a founding engineer. You are an owner.
• $250,000 in AI tooling credits. Cursor, Claude, whatever you need.
• Health, Vision and Dental (50% reimbursed).
• Unlimited PTO. We measure output, not hours.
• Remote or in-person. We have 2 modern campuses in Reston & Sterling Virginia.
• Paid engineering conferences.