Chief Technology Officer

Talantir; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

Incerta Intelligence Inc. is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and hands-on engineering for an AI-native platform. You will own security, deployment strategies, and customer-facing technical conversations with mission customers and partners.

You will drive architecture across model orchestration, data guardrails, and evaluation while guiding the engineering team through secure SDLC and government compliance. A strategic, hands-on leader is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years professional software engineering with leadership roles.
• Hands-on experience with AI-native development and enterprise deployments.
• Experience with LLM orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, and guardrails.
• Cloud-native architecture and Kubernetes expertise.
• Secure SDLC and government compliance experience.
• Ability to lead executive and government-level technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision and architecture for the platform.
• Contribute hands-on to the core platform and tackle complex challenges.
• Oversee secure SDLC, threat modeling, and compliance.
• Lead deployment into GovCloud, air-gapped, and disconnected environments.
• Manage customer-facing technical relationships and partnerships.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

LLM-based systems

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes

Microservices

CI/CD

Secure SDLC

Threat modeling

Government compliance

Executive discussions

Job description

Complete an AI-powered simulation and receive a verifiable proof-of-skills report.Chief Technology Officer - Incerta Intelligence Inc.Charlotte, NC | Full-time | US Citizenship Required (Top Secret Eligibility)### What We BuildDecision-grade AI for national security. Most AI is answer-grade - fast, fluent, unaccountable. Fine for a chat window. Useless in a command post, where the question isn't "what's the answer" but "what would have to be true for this to be wrong," and where a confident wrong answer costs something real.So we build the other thing. Agentic decision support with deterministic workflows, hard data guardrails, and analytic integrity that survives contact with people trained to attack an assessment. Competing hypotheses, not a single confident narrative. Graduated authority that knows the difference between advising an analyst and orchestrating an action. Model-agnostic by design - we use frontier intelligence, we don't depend on frontier knowledge.Kubernetes-native, cloud to disconnected edge.The interesting problems here aren't the ones the industry is working on. Everyone is racing to make models sound more certain. We're building the system that makes certainty earn its place - where the interface itself forces the analyst to commit before the machine reveals, where nothing leaves the platform without passing an integrity gate, where the agent's job is sometimes to slow you down. That's a design philosophy with real engineering underneath it, and almost nobody is doing it.We build fast, and we ship into environments that don't forgive.### The RoleYou are our senior-most technologist and our most credible technical voice in the market. You report to the CEO and you sit on the executive team.You will be in the codebase. We're AI-native - everyone here builds, and the CTO more so, because technical judgment decays the moment you stop touching the system. Architecture, review, real commits.You will also be the technical face of this company. Customer technical walkthroughs, partner architecture reviews, conference stages, podcasts, the second- and third-tier conversations where interest becomes procurement. You'll move from a program office to an engineering deep-dive in the same afternoon and f at home in both.### What You'll Own- Technical vision and architecture: Long-range direction of the platform - model orchestration, agentic workflow design, data guardrails, and evaluation.- Hands-on engineering: Direct contribution to the core platform, architectural spikes, and solving the most complex technical challenges.- The full SDLC & Security: Secure development lifecycle, supply chain integrity, STIG compliance, and ATO pathways into government boundaries.- Deployment leadership: Deployment into GovCloud, air-gapped, and disconnected edge environments.- Customer-facing leadership: Owning technical relationships with mission customers and prime partners; writing and defending technical volumes.### About You- You have 10+ years as a software engineer and you rolled into the AI era with ease.- You're already AI-native - you build with these tools daily, you have opinions about where they break, and joining an AI-native firm is natural rather than a leap.- You've deployed real enterprise software into real customer environments. You think in full lifecycle:security posture, architecture at the client endpoint,environmental constraints,sustainment. You know the difference between a demo and a system somebody depends on.- You want to take a deeper leap into a client-facing role. You've done it, you're good at it, and you're pushing that capability to the next level.- You're ready to be the face of a growing business.- You're comfortable in public - conferences,podcasts, panels, executive briefings - and you can hold a technical conversation and a business conversation in the same room without losing either audience.- You're precise about claims. You don't sell what the code can't do.- You operate without scaffolding. We set direction and expect ownership. Nobody here is assigned work.### Requirements- 10+ years professional software engineering, with significant time in technical leadership (CTO, VP, or Architect).- Currently hands-on with a strong background in writing and reviewing code.- Production experience with LLM-based systems: orchestration, evaluation, retrieval, and guardrails.- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD).- Experience with secure SDLC, threat modeling, and government compliance frameworks.- Ability to lead senior executive and government-level technical discussions.- Required: US citizenship and eligibility for a Top Secret clearance.- Preferred: Active TS/SCI, experience with AWS GovCloud (IL4/5/6), or prior military/IC service.### Compensation- Base Salary commensurate with market and experience- Equity- Medical,Vision, Dental Insurance### Location & TravelMust be based in Charlotte, North Carolina or Washington, D.C. Location is currently considered Remote with subject to change to Hybrid based on company needs. Expect 25-35% travel to customer sites, partner facilities, and the industry calendar.### How to Apply- Easyapply/DM on LinkedIn.- During the hiring process expect to share something you built (repository, architecture, or technical talk)- During the hiring process expect to share a short note on the hardest end-to-end deployment you have owned- Congratulations on reading this far into this job description> we'd like to show our appreciation by prioritizing the review of your application, thusly please send your resumé directly to [e-mail] Intelligence Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. This position requires access to information subject to US export control and national security requirements; applicants must be US persons and eligible for the clearance level described above.This role is classified under - view the full career profile for typical tasks, skills, and outlook.### Required Skills### Required ToolsEach SOP from Talantir's library is scored against this specific listing based on skill and tool overlap. According to SANS Institute (2024), candidates who can demonstrate SOP proficiency in interviews are 2.8x more likely to receive offers. Rankings differ per listing because each company emphasizes different tools and skills.1SOP-CMO-00333%2SOP-CMO-00420%3SOP-CMO-0010%4SOP-CMO-0020%5SOP-CMO-0050%SOP alignment scores computed deterministically from skill/tool overlap - zero LLM costTalantir's readiness path covers 63% of this listing's requirements. CyberSeek (2025) reports that the average cybersecurity job listing requires 12 distinct technical skills - this listing requires 7.### Covered by Readiness Path (5)Engineering and TechnologyService OrientationComplex Problem SolvingTechnology DesignSystems Evaluation### Skill Gaps (3)systems evaluationHidden ReqNot in readiness pathkubernetesHidden ReqNot in readiness pathwritingHidden ReqNot in readiness pathThis listing requires 3 skill(s) not fully covered by the standard readiness path: systems evaluation, kubernetes, writing.Readiness match will appear here soon## How to Become a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) - Country Readiness GuidesSee full readiness pathways, certifications, ESCO-O\*NET analysis, and visa requirements for this role by country.### We value your privacy### We value your privacy