Remote Founding AI CTO for Regulated Enterprise Platform

Montauk Capital; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote, US-based position

Founding-stage equity/compensation

Job summary

Montauk Capital seeks a founding Chief Technology Officer to architect and build an AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform for regulated industries. This co-founder role blends hands-on product engineering with strategic ownership of architecture, models, data, and enterprise integrations.

The leader will work directly with customers and the CEO to translate high-stakes problems into a scalable, trustworthy platform that delivers personalized interventions while ensuring security,

Qualifications

• Experience building production systems with language models, dialogue systems, or autonomous agents.
• Strong understanding of personalization, ranking, experimentation, and predictive modeling.
• Ability to balance model-based reasoning with deterministic controls and human-in-the-loop.

Responsibilities

• Make foundational technical decisions across models, architecture, data pipelines, APIs, and enterprise integrations while remaining hands-on in the product
• Build conversational agents that understand context, personalize engagement, negotiate within policy, and coordinate across channels
• Design and ship a decisioning and personalization engine using ML, experimentation, and behavioral signals to choose interventions and resolutions
• Establish rigorous learning/evaluation systems: data pipelines, feedback loops, offline/online evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human-review
• Engineer for enterprise-grade reliability: security, privacy, auditability, explainability, compliance, and dependable performance in regulated environments
• Partner with design customers to understand workflows, deploy quickly, measure outcomes, and scale the platform
• Recruit and lead early engineers and applied AI talent, fostering speed and technical rigor

Skills

Production systems

Language models

Enterprise integrations

Applied AI product judgment

Leadership

Security & privacy

Hiring & team building

Architectural decision-making

Job description

Montauk Capital seeks a founding Chief Technology Officer to architect and build an AI-native customer engagement and recovery platform for regulated industries. This co-founder role blends hands-on product engineering with strategic ownership of architecture, models, data, and enterprise integrations.

The leader will work directly with customers and the CEO to translate high-stakes problems into a scalable, trustworthy platform that delivers personalized interventions while ensuring security,