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Field CTO – Physical AI, Robotics
Location
California
Posted
14 days ago
Salary
$295K - $365K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems
- 5+ years of experience in AI, HPC, and/or robotics with exposure to production or large-scale systems
- Prior experience in a senior technical leadership role (Field CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal Architect, or Distinguished Engineer)
- Dual-competency: equally comfortable drawing distributed system architecture for engineers and communicating business value to a CEO
- GTM fluency — proven experience partnering with Sales to close large enterprise deals and enabling field teams with technical assets
- Product-minded leadership: experience defining platform or product strategy from market feedback, not just executing technical tickets
- Strong hands-on understanding of GPU-centric infrastructure, high-performance compute, storage, and networking
- Robotics fluency: familiarity with Physical AI workflows including simulation, synthetic data generation, training pipelines, and real-world deployment
- Executive presence and strong communication skills — able to influence product teams and leadership through clarity and credibility
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments at hyperscalers, cloud platforms, or advanced AI startups.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families
- 401(k) with up to 4% company match and immediate vesting
- 20 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers; 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Remote work reimbursement up to $85/month for mobile and internet
- Company-paid short-term, long-term disability, and life insurance
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