Kaidon.ai
Chief Technology Officer
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Job Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
About the Role
This is a technical leadership role for a start-up in hyper-growth. As CTO, you will own the technical strategy and end-to-end delivery of the Agent OS platform; the build, the deployment engineering, and the security and compliance posture on which the company’s growth depends.
You will build and scale the engineering organisation through a period of rapid growth to many dozens of engineers, while holding a weekly release train, and front the technical diligence for our Series A; the point at which our air-gapped and HPE PCAI deployment claims must stand up to institutional scrutiny.
You will own the security and compliance posture, with a planned separation of the CISO mandate as the function matures.
This is a build-stage role, not a slide-stage one: you build through others but stay hands-on across architecture reviews, incident command, and the code itself, working as a genuine peer to the Head of Product and the founding team.
What You’ll Do
- Own the technical strategy and end-to-end delivery of the Agent OS platform: the build, deployment engineering, and security and compliance posture
- Build and scale the engineering organisation across product and platform through rapid, multi-dozen growth, while keeping a weekly release train
- Run fleet operations for single-tenant deployments: automated provisioning, upgrade trains, observability, and incident response across tens of isolated customer environments
- Own security architecture and build compliance in as a product feature: zero-trust agent identities, EU AI Act audit trails, human oversight, and data residency
- Front technical diligence for the Series A and lead enterprise security audits where applicable
- Hold joint-roadmap and reference-architecture conversations with HPE, NVIDIA, and WWT engineering teams
- Partner with the Head of Product, and represent Deliverance customer-facing at CTO-to-CTO level in defence, health, telco, and sovereign accounts
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Must-Haves
- 12+ years in engineering, including 5+ leading and scaling teams through significant growth at a B2B infrastructure or enterprise platform company
- Shipped and operated production LLM/agentic systems at enterprise scale: multi-provider model routing, permission-trimmed RAG, and agent orchestration with human-in-the-loop controls (not a GenAI-strategy background)
- Deep Kubernetes and multi-cloud engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP) plus on-prem and private-cloud delivery: HPE PCAI and NVIDIA DGX, or a credible equivalent (OpenShift, sovereign cloud, defence infrastructure)
- Run fleet operations for single-tenant software: automated provisioning, upgrade trains, observability, and incident response across tens of isolated deployments
- Strong distributed-systems and data-platform fundamentals: event-driven services, Postgres at scale, and vector/hybrid search
- Owns security architecture credibly, from zero-trust design and secrets management through to hardening in production, with a track record delivering ISO 27001 and SOC 2
- Shipped into air-gapped or classified environments, and eligible for UK SC clearance (non-negotiable for the defence workstream)
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Nice-to-Haves
- ISO 42001 experience
- UK DV clearance
- Has taken a company through institutional technical diligence or enterprise security audits
- Scale-up (Series A to C) stage experience, and familiarity with SLM fine-tuning and GPU infrastructure
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