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CTO & Co-Founder @ Pre-Seed AI Infrastructure Venture, Berlin
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
On-site · Berlin, Germany
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
CTO & Co-Founder role at a pre-seed AI infrastructure venture, owning technical direction and leading an existing team of 3 engineers. Hands-on leadership building an AI-native engineering culture with coding agents at the centre.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- On-site · Berlin, Germany
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Lead and develop our existing team of 3 engineers, set high engineering standards and take ownership of what the team ships
- Own technical hiring and build the engineering organisation as the company grows
- Set the technical direction, from architecture and roadmap to build-vs-buy decisions
- Scale and operate reliable AI infrastructure, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, security, GDPR and European data residency
- Stay hands-on, writing code and contributing directly to our core systems
- Build an AI-native engineering culture where coding agents such as Claude Code are central to how the team develops, reviews and ships software
- Design and continuously improve our agentic engineering setup, from harnesses and workflows to orchestrating multiple agents in parallel, evaluating their output and benchmarking what works
- Represent the company technically with customers, in security reviews and in investor conversations
What we're looking for
- Proven experience leading, hiring and managing engineering teams, ideally in a startup, whether as a CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Manager or Tech Lead
- Strong backend and platform foundations, including distributed systems, API design, cloud infrastructure and production systems
- Hands-on experience building and operating AI infrastructure and LLM-powered systems in production
- Extensive daily use of coding agents such as Claude Code, with strong coding fundamentals and the judgement to review and own the quality of their output
- Experience designing and improving agentic engineering workflows for yourself or a team, including harnesses, multi-agent orchestration and benchmarking, with a clear understanding of their capabilities and limitations
Nice to have
- Experience optimising LLM cost and performance
- Experience serving and operating open-weight models, including GPU and capacity decisions
Benefits
- Funding is secured, an engineering team is in place and the product is already in production
- Opportunity to scale the technology, build the team and influence the direction of the company from an early stage
- Co-founder equity in the business you help build
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About atlantic.vc
An Atlantic portfolio venture building AI infrastructure, with pre-seed funding secured, early customer demand and a product already in production.
Key facts
- Pre-seed funding secured
- Early customer demand
- Product already in production
- Existing team of 3 engineers