Chief Technology Officer

DeepRec.ai; Brussel; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepRec.ai, a European AI company, is appointing a CTO to own the technical agenda and lead engineering through its next growth phase.

The role covers technical strategy and architecture for the platform and model layers, plus building an effective engineering org, and shaping build-vs-buy decisions that define product positioning. A focus on security, certification, and external technical leadership is key.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• 5+ years as CTO or VP Eng in B2B software.
• Strong architectural depth and credibility in technical conversations.
• Production AI/ML experience, with cost, latency and evaluation trade-offs.
• Experience with regulated environments and data-residency constraints.
• Fluent English; German is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for the platform and model layer.
• Shape the engineering organization: structure, hiring bar, and delivery quality.
• Lead build-vs-buy and sovereignty decisions defining product positioning.
• Own security and certification as essential engineering properties.
• Serve as external technical voice to partners, enterprise clients, regulators, and the board.

Skills

Engineering leadership

CTO/VP Eng experience

B2B software

Production AI/ML

Architecture depth

Regulated environments

Data residency sovereignty

English fluency

German (bonus)

Job description

A European AI company building infrastructure, European data residency, and a certification posture enterprise buyers can actually audit. Founder-led, venture-backed, past product-market fit and scaling.

They're appointing a CTO to own the technical agenda and lead engineering through the next phase.

The Role:

• Technical strategy and architecture: the platform, the model layer, and how both evolve
• The engineering org: structure, hiring bar, delivery quality
• Build-vs-buy and sovereignty calls that define the product's positioning
• Security and certification as an engineering property, not paperwork
• External technical voice: partners, enterprise clients, regulators, the board

What they need

• 15+ years in engineering, 5+ as CTO or VP Eng in B2B software
• Scaled an engineering org and owned the hiring bar that made it work
• Real architectural depth, credible in the technical conversation, not just the management one
• Production AI/ML, ideally LLM-based, with a grip on cost, latency and evaluation trade-offs
• Regulated or certification-heavy environments, and data-residency constraints
• Fluent English. German is a bonus, as is legal tech or another regulated professional-services domain.