AI-First CTO: Architect of Global Remote Engineering

Toptal; Polska; À distance; PLN 900 000 - 1 500 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Toptal is seeking a visionary CTO to drive AI-first product and engineering strategy. You will own the AI architecture, build agentic engineering at scale, and set standards across teams. You will lead hiring, resourcing, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, ensuring fast, high-quality delivery. This is a remote role with global impact.

You will stay ahead in AI, coach engineers, and push AI into every function at Toptal, delivering measurable business outcomes with urgency and rigor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required, and an advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering, or as a direct report to one at meaningful scale.
• Deep, current, hands-on command of modern AI engineering: foundation models, agentic architectures, harness design, retrieval, context engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
• Agentic systems deployed at scale against real business processes, with measured outcomes on cost, cycle time, quality, or revenue.

Responsabilités

• Own Toptal’s AI technology strategy and the architecture beneath it: model selection and fine-tuning, harness design, orchestration, retrieval, context engineering, tool and MCP integration, guardrails, evaluation, and cost control.
• Deploy agentic engineering at scale against the work that runs this business: matching, vetting, onboarding, delivery, and internal operations.
• Make AI quality measurable. Own the evals, the regression suites, and the review loops.
• Rebuild how the platform gets built and operated, raising output per engineer through AI-assisted development, review, testing, and operations.

Connaissances

Foundation models

Agentic architectures

Retrieval, context engineering

Secure-by-design architecture

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Advanced degree strongly preferred

Description du poste

Toptal is seeking a visionary CTO to drive AI-first product and engineering strategy. You will own the AI architecture, build agentic engineering at scale, and set standards across teams. You will lead hiring, resourcing, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, ensuring fast, high-quality delivery. This is a remote role with global impact.

You will stay ahead in AI, coach engineers, and push AI into every function at Toptal, delivering measurable business outcomes with urgency and rigor.