Founding CTO: Scale Production AI Vision & Platforms

Flycatcher; Schweiz; Vor Ort; CHF 80.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Ownership of technical direction

Fast deployment and iteration

Culture of builders

Elite ecosystem partnerships

Equity and growth opportunities

Zusammenfassung

Flycatcher, a Swiss biomedical-inspired AI startup, seeks a senior engineering leader to own and evolve a Python-based stack from edge devices to customer dashboards. You will drive production ML, architecture, and cloud infra while hiring and mentoring a team.

This role blends hands-on engineering with customer facing leadership and strategic decisions. You will join a fast-scaling company backed by notable research partners, with relocation flexibility to Lugano and on-site customer work, plus

Qualifikationen

• You can carry the company, not only the code.
• You build the team and set hiring bar.
• You set the technical agenda and priorities.
• A deliverer who has seen scale and shipped deployments.
• Production ML experience with real systems.
• Depth in computer vision and cameras.
• Hands-on hardware experience.
• Comfort on customer sites and in front of customers.
• Full-stack pragmatism and pragmatic shipping.
• Startup DNA with adaptability.
• English fluent; Italian/German a plus.

Aufgaben

• Own the codebase and drive architecture across edge, dashboard, training API and cloud infra.
• Lead production deployments and automate deployment, cost optimisations and onboarding of new engineers.
• Drive technical hiring and build a high-performance engineering team.
• Collaborate with customers and partners, delivering value and collecting feedback.
• Shape product direction and determine what to build vs buy.

Kenntnisse

Carry the company

Team building

Judgement

Delivery focus

Production ML

Computer vision depth

Hands on hardware

Customer facing

Full-stack pragmatism

Startup DNA

English fluent

Italian/German a plus

Tools

PyTorch

FastAPI

Azure

FFmpeg

OpenCV

Jobbeschreibung

Flycatcher, a Swiss biomedical-inspired AI startup, seeks a senior engineering leader to own and evolve a Python-based stack from edge devices to customer dashboards. You will drive production ML, architecture, and cloud infra while hiring and mentoring a team.

This role blends hands-on engineering with customer facing leadership and strategic decisions. You will join a fast-scaling company backed by notable research partners, with relocation flexibility to Lugano and on-site customer work, plus