Chief AI Officer

NeuroStrike AS; Oslo fylke; Hybrid; NOK 2,200,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

NeuroStrike AS seeks a Chief AI Officer to own the AI strategy and execution for our autonomous pentest engine and future AI products. You will lead model selection, fine-tuning, and serving on sovereign European infrastructure, and build an evaluation framework to measure progress.

You will hire and grow a high-performing AI and research team, own governance and safety, and represent the AI work to customers and investors as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Senior experience leading ML/LLM teams that shipped AI systems to production.
• Deep hands-on understanding of LLMs, agents, evaluation and fine-tuning.
• Proven ability to turn research into reliable products.
• Strong strategy, architecture and hands-on depth balance.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Own AI strategy and roadmap for our autonomous pentest engine and future AI products.
• Lead model selection, fine-tuning and serving of open-weight models on sovereign infrastructure.
• Build rigorous evaluation and benchmarking so every claimed improvement is measured.
• Represent our AI work to customers, partners and investors as we scale.
• Hire, grow and lead a high-performing team of AI and research engineers.
• Own AI governance, safety and compliance, including the EU AI Act.

Skills

Strategic leadership

ML/LLM experience

Hands-on ML engineering

Team leadership

English proficiency

Job description

As Chief AI Officer you will own NeuroStrike's AI strategy and execution. You will set the direction for our agentic pentest engine, our open-weight model stack running on sovereign European infrastructure, and the evaluation and fine-tuning pipeline that turns every engagement into a better model. You will build and lead the AI team, work directly with the CEO on product and company strategy, and represent NeuroStrike's AI work to customers, partners and investors as we scale.

• Own the AI strategy and roadmap for our autonomous pentest engine and future AI products
• Lead model selection, fine-tuning and serving of open-weight models on sovereign infrastructure
• Build rigorous evaluation and benchmarking so every claimed improvement is measured
• Hire, grow and lead a high-performing team of AI and research engineers
• Own AI governance, safety and compliance, including the EU AI Act
• Represent our AI work to customers, partners, investors and the research community

• You must be willing and eligible to be authorised for classified information at BEGRENSET / NATO RESTRICTED level, and to undergo security clearance (sikkerhetsklarering) under the Norwegian Security Act if a customer assignment requires it. This is required due to the nature of our customers.
• Senior experience leading ML or LLM teams that shipped AI systems to production
• Deep hands-on understanding of LLMs, agents, evaluation and fine-tuning
• A track record of turning research into reliable products
• Ability to set strategy and still go deep on technical detail
• Experience hiring and developing strong technical teams
• Professional working proficiency in English