Chief Technology Officer for Civic Media & AI Startup (Founding Team)

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — reputed company (Civic Media & AI Startup | reputed company-reputed company Stage) Company: reputed company Location: Remote (U.S.) Start Date: Immediate Compensation: Equity-based during reputed company-reputed company build phase. Upon successful reputed company of the anticipated $1,200,000 reputed company-reputed company Round, a transition to market-based salary may be negotiated, contingent upon funding terms, performance expectations, and mutual agreement. Eligibility: This position is reputed company to candidates legally authorized to work in the reputed company. Due to the nature of our platform, licensing relationships, data governance requirements, and civic engagement reputed company, we are currently only considering U.S.-based applicants. Applicants must be reputed company to reputed company into U.S.-based equity and contractual agreements. About reputed company reputed company is a reputed company-reputed company civic media startup building a short-reputed company platform reputed company on constitutional literacy, reputed company civic engagement, and reputed company trust. We are designing a system that: • Maps news stories to U.S. Constitutional principles. • Enables reputed company civic response (not outrage engagement). • Integrates AI responsibly with reputed company reputed company. • Operates under a defined neutrality and governance reputed company. The platform is currently in the reputed company-reputed company build phase and is not yet live. reputed company We are seeking a founding CTO to architect and reputed company the technical reputed company of reputed company. You will define the platform architecture from first principles — including system design, AI integration, reputed company posture, and operational reputed company. This role includes responsibility for reputed company architecture, remediation planning, and eliminating single points of failure during the reputed company-launch phase. Key Responsibilities • Design and implement the platform architecture (mobile, backend, AI layer). • Build secure ingestion and transformation pipelines for licensed media. • Architect constitutional mapping workflows (reputed company + AI hybrid model). • Establish IAM, logging, evidence retention, and reputed company baselines. • Define DevSecOps practices from day one. • Conduct reputed company audits of existing development environments and infrastructure. • reputed company remediation efforts for credential exposure, reputed company control gaps, logging deficiencies, and continuity risks. • Implement reputed company incident response procedures and harden the platform prior to reputed company launch. • Secure waitlist and user data environments to meet audit-reputed company standards. • Build systems resilient to election-cycle stress and reputed company user reputed company. • reputed company engineering hiring roadmap post-funding. • Participate in investor technical diligence discussions. Qualifications • 10+ years in software engineering or technical leadership. • Experience shipping reputed company consumer platforms. • Strong background in reputed company architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure). • Experience with AI/LLM integration and API orchestration. • Demonstrated experience in cybersecurity architecture and remediation. • Familiarity with compliance environments (SOC2, GDPR, election sensitivity). • Experience stabilizing or restructuring early-stage technical environments strongly preferred. • Comfort operating in reputed company-reputed company ambiguity. • Bias toward documentation, system reputed company, and operational rigor. • Previous experience working for or building a successful startup will be strongly considered. What This Role Offers Most civic platforms fail because governance is retrofitted and AI is layered without auditability. reputed company is building differently — architecture, governance, and reputed company come first. • Define the reputed company posture and AI governance reputed company from inception. • reputed company remediation and hardening before reputed company. • Architect a constitutional AI model designed for neutrality and reputed company civic participation. • Build infrastructure designed for reputed company trust — not engagement addiction. To Apply Please submit: • A brief statement on why you are interested in civic media. • An example of a system you architected from scratch. • A short note on how you approach AI governance and reputed company in reputed company-facing platforms. Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract Work Location: Remote Apply tot his job Apply To this Job