CTO & Co-Founder @ Pre-Seed AI Infrastructure Venture, Berlin

Job description

This is an Atlantic portfolio venture. About the Venture We are building AI infrastructure, with pre-seed funding secured, early customer demand and a product already in production. We are now looking for a CTO & Co-Founder to shape the company and its technology, scale the product and build the engineering organisation. About the Role As CTO & Co-Founder, you will own the technical direction of the company and the team that delivers it. You will lead an existing team of 3 engineers, grow it and set the standards for how it works. We are building an AI-native engineering team from day one, with agentic engineering at the centre of how we write, review and ship code. Coding agents are not an add-on, but the default way we build software. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will stay close to the code while making the technical and organisational decisions that shape the company as it grows. What You'll Do Lead and develop our existing team of 3 engineers, set high engineering standards and take ownership of what the team ships Own technical hiring and build the engineering organisation as the company grows Set the technical direction, from architecture and roadmap to build-vs-buy decisions Scale and operate reliable AI infrastructure, including APIs, cloud infrastructure, security, GDPR and European data residency Stay hands-on, writing code and contributing directly to our core systems Build an AI-native engineering culture where coding agents such as Claude Code are central to how the team develops, reviews and ships software Design and continuously improve our agentic engineering setup, from harnesses and workflows to orchestrating multiple agents in parallel, evaluating their output and benchmarking what works Represent the company technically with customers, in security reviews and in investor conversations About You You are an experienced technical leader who still loves to build. You have hired and led engineers, shipped complex systems into production and know how to make good technical decisions under real-world constraints. You already work extensively with coding agents and have strong convictions about how AI is changing software engineering. You want to build a team around that approach, and you're excited by the ownership, ambition and uncertainty of becoming a co-founder. Proven experience leading, hiring and managing engineering teams, id…