Founding Engineer/CTO-Decentralised AI- VC Firm

About the company: This is the technical arm of a new VC- backing startups that use protocols like Bittensor to gain an edge over traditional AI companies.

About the role:

First technical hire, and the most senior. They will own the entire technical stack: subnet analytics products, research and due-diligence tooling, on-chain data pipelines, and infrastructure monitoring. They set the engineering bar and hire the team behind them over the next 12 months. Direct daily work with the founders.

Job Requirement:

• 10+ years backend / ML systems experience; has shipped real products to production
• Strong Python; Rust or CUDA a bonus
• Genuine ML engineering experience — trained or served models, optimised inference (vLLM, SGLang or similar)
• Solid distributed-systems footing: Kubernetes, observability, real production failure experience
• Crypto / on-chain fluency, or the curiosity to ramp very fast — hands-on Bittensor experience is a major plus
• Founding-engineer mentality: ownership, ambiguity tolerance, builds without a spec

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates