Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer Remote across EuropeSalary Up to €180,000A European AI company building infrastructure, European data residency, and a certification posture enterprise buyers can actually audit. Founder-led, venture-backed, past product-market fit and scaling.They're appointing a CTO to own the technical agenda and lead engineering through the next phase.The Role:Technical strategy and architecture: the platform, the model layer, and how both evolveThe engineering org: structure, hiring bar, delivery qualityBuild-vs-buy and sovereignty calls that define the product's positioningSecurity and certification as an engineering property, not paperworkExternal technical voice: partners, enterprise clients, regulators, the boardWhat they need15+ years in engineering, 5+ as CTO or VP Eng in B2B softwareScaled an engineering org and owned the hiring bar that made it workReal architectural depth, credible in the technical conversation, not just the management oneProduction AI/ML, ideally LLM-based, with a grip on cost, latency and evaluation trade-offsRegulated or certification-heavy environments, and data-residency constraintsFluent English. German is a bonus, as is legal tech or another regulated professional-services domain.