Kamiwaza AI

Kamiwaza AI

Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO)

United States · Exec

No sponsorship$61k-$120kDetected 133 days ago
TypeScriptDistributed SystemsMachine LearningLLMsRAGAI OrchestrationProduct ManagementProduct StrategySalesCadenceLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Kamiwaza AI is seeking a Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO) to serve as the senior-most customer-facing technical executive supporting U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers.
  • The Field CTO blends executive technical advisory, technical go-to-market leadership, and field-to-product strategy.
  • This is not a sales engineer or solutions architect role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead classified and unclassified executive briefings, architecture reviews, and mission workshops
  • Own technical escalation for complex customer situations, pilots, and competitive bake-offs.
  • We're a small, driven team building a platform that makes GenAI deployment feel like magic.
  • We operate with high urgency but think for the long term-action creates clarity.
  • Ready to build the foundation of the GenAI revolution?

Requirements

  • 15+ years total experience across industry and government.
  • 7+ years in customer-facing technical leadership roles in the federal market (Field CTO, Deputy CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Engineer, Principal SA/SE leader).
  • Experience supporting OTAs, rapid prototypes, pilots, and transition-to-production pathways
  • familiarity with federal acquisition and program stakeholders.
  • Proven track record operating in classified environments and communicating effectively within security constraints.
  • Working knowledge of DoD/IC security, RMF/ATO processes, and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53)
  • Ability to assess AI system trustworthiness in operational settings (evaluation, model risk, data governance, and auditability).
  • Ability to engage credibly with senior military officers (GO/FO), SES, and IC executives.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance required

Nice to have

  • Prior military service or direct government technology leadership (e.g., command/agency CTO, senior technical advisor).
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, PMP) and/or published work (technical articles, standards contributions, whitepapers).
  • Purpose & Impact: Be a key contributor to the GenAI revolution, shaping how enterprises adopt next-generation technology.
  • Expert Founders with Successful Exits: Our leadership team brings experience and a relentless enthusiasm for GenAI innovation.
  • High-Autonomy Environment: Flat organizational structure, transparent communication, and minimal red tape.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership (public speaking, panels, webinars, publications/whitepapers, community leadership) is strongly preferred.

Skills

  • AI/ML systems including LLMs, SLMs, VLMs, agentic frameworks, and evaluation/guardrails
  • AI orchestration and inference at scale across cloud, core, and edge
  • Distributed data platforms, streaming/event-driven architectures, and real-time situational awareness systems
  • Retrieval and data orchestration patterns for mission data (RAG, entity resolution, polystructured data)
  • Model evaluation, governance, and trustworthy AI in operational settings
  • Secure deployments in classified, air-gapped, denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments
  • Define federal reference architectures, deployment patterns, and "how-to" guidance that accelerates pilots → production.

Compensation

  • Own a piece of our high-potential, well-funded startup.

Benefits

  • This role offers a base salary between $190,000 and $230,000, plus equity and benefits.
  • Our benefits include low-deductible medical plans, flexible time off, and supportive family leave policies.
  • Health coverage, remote workspace support, and more.

Company info

  • Our approach: curious, humble, but relentless.
  • We're fun, kind, and exceptional-serious about making an impact but never taking ourselves too seriously.
  • Based in Colorado, but work from anywhere with the tools and support you need.
  • Act as the authoritative technical voice for Kamiwaza Federal with DoD and IC customers.
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