CTO / Technical Co-Founder (LLM-based AI Mental Health Platform)

Backsie Inc; Firenze; Remoto; EUR 100.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

An innovative AI startup is seeking a CTO / Technical Co-Founder to lead the technical vision and guide the evolution from MVP to a scalable platform. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience in AI, ML, or NLP, and experience with LLM systems. This role involves building an engineering team, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating closely with stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary and equity based on funding.

Servizi

Equity: 8 – 15%

Competitive salary post-funding

Possibility of stipend or consulting arrangement

Competenze

• 5+ years in AI, ML, or NLP engineering (including production-level LLM systems).
• Proven ability to lead technical teams in startups or fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset.

Mansioni

• Lead overall AI and software architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and data integrity.
• Oversee development of LLM orchestration and guardrail agents for emotionally nuanced conversations.
• Build and manage the engineering team, CI / CD pipelines, and DevOps infrastructure.
• Develop RAG systems, custom datasets, and regression testing frameworks.
• Collaborate with product and research to align emotional intelligence with logical structure.
• Represent the technical vision to investors and partners.

Conoscenze

AI

ML

NLP

LangChain

OpenAI API

Agentic design

API-centric architecture

Data pipelines

Testing automation

Excellent communication

Descrizione del lavoro

At Backsie Inc (Permanent)

Salary : €100.000 - €120.000

Expires at : 2026-01-26

Remote policy : Global remote

About the Role

We’re seeking a highly skilled CTO / Technical Co-Founder with deep expertise in LLM-based AI, multi-agent architectures, and human-AI interaction. You’ll own the technology vision and guide Backsie’s evolution from MVP to scalable platform as we prepare for venture financing in Q1 2026.

This is not a hands-off position — you’ll conduct a full technical audit, design the future architecture, expand the engineering team, and ensure that all AI systems are robust, low-latency, and emotionally intelligent. You’ll collaborate closely with the CEO (based in New York) and a distributed team across time zones.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall AI and software architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and data integrity
• Oversee development of LLM orchestration and guardrail agents for emotionally nuanced conversations
• Build and manage the engineering team, CI / CD pipelines, and DevOps infrastructure
• Develop RAG systems, custom datasets, and regression testing frameworks
• Collaborate with product and research to align emotional intelligence with logical structure
• Represent the technical vision to investors and partners

Main requirements

• 5 + years in AI, ML, or NLP engineering (including production-level LLM systems)
• Experience with LangChain , OpenAI API , or comparable frameworks
• Solid grasp of agentic design , API-centric architecture , data pipelines , and testing automation
• Proven ability to lead technical teams in startups or fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset

Nice to have

• Prior startup or co-founder experience
• Familiarity with mental-health, wellbeing, or CBT / DBT frameworks
• Experience balancing safety / guardrail mechanisms and empathy in LLM products

Benefits & Perks

Compensation & Equity

• Equity : 8 – 15 % (vesting over 48 months / 83b eligible)
• Salary (post-funding) : up to $200 K USD (competitive with U.S. standards)
• Early-stage stipend or consulting arrangement may be offered until fundraising closes

Why Join Us

You’ll be shaping the foundation of a product with the potential to redefine how people reflect, reason, and heal with AI. Backsie is early enough that your contributions will shape its DNA — from technical architecture to team culture — yet mature enough to have a clear path to funding and market.

We value emotional intelligence, technical depth, and long-term commitment. If you’re ready to build something that truly matters, let’s talk