Founding AI CTO: Build Core ML Engine & Lead Team

Northeading Technologies; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology startup in Ottawa is seeking a technical co-founder to architect and build the AI core. This role involves hands-on software engineering, hiring, and setting the technical direction. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI and ML systems, alongside familiarity with full-stack technologies. This is a full-time position offering substantial founder equity and ownership over product direction.

Benefits

Founder equity

Founder stipend

100% technical ownership

Qualifications

• 7 years of hands-on software engineering at the intersection of full-stack and machine learning.
• Experience building production AI/ML systems.
• Understanding of frontend, backend, infra, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core alignment engine.
• Implement RAG or agent architectures.
• Build data pipelines and manage model deployment.
• Lead infrastructure and CI/CD processes.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Full-stack development

Docker

Kubernetes

MLOps

Python FastAPI

React

Tools

Pinecone

Redis

PostgreSQL

Hugging Face

Job description

A technology startup in Ottawa is seeking a technical co-founder to architect and build the AI core. This role involves hands-on software engineering, hiring, and setting the technical direction. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on AI and ML systems, alongside familiarity with full-stack technologies. This is a full-time position offering substantial founder equity and ownership over product direction.