Field CTO (AI Enterprise scale up)

Field CTO / Head of Forward-Deployed Engineering — AustraliaA fast-growing applied AI company that builds production AI systems for enterprise customers is hiring a senior technical leader to represent them in Australia - equal parts sales engineer, delivery lead, and the voice of local customers back to the global product team.This is a hands-on mandate, not a figurehead role. You'll sit in early sales conversations, run demos, and shape architecture and security discussions — then roll up your sleeves to actually build and ship the integrations that get customers live. You'll build the local technical team around you as you go, spanning engineering, integration, and pre-sales. Once customers are live, you're the one they call: owning escalations, partnerships, and turning what you're hearing on the ground into input the global product org actually acts on.What they're looking for:10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience — you've shipped things that are actually in production, not just architected them. Experience with AI systemsA track record in pre-sales, solution architecture, or complex technical implementations, ideally from a Field CTO, Solutions Architect, or Deployed Engineer backgroundReal leadership range — Director, VP, or Founder-level experience. Have been a Technical co-founders during careerComfort building from a blank page — the plan, the team, and the system, with no existing playbook to followScale up experience where speed and ownership mattered more than title