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Chief Technology Officer, Autonomous Vehicles Location: Remote, North America (US or Canada), with regular travel to operational sites Employment Type: Full time, permanent Compensation: Top-of-market base salary plus a significant equity package About the Company Our client is a fast-growing autonomous vehicle company deploying driverless technology in commercial operations. Unlike many in the space, they are already live, with a fleet of autonomous vehicles doing real work every day for a major enterprise customer. The company is well funded following a recent growth round, is generating revenue, and is scaling its fleet significantly across multiple customer sites. It operates in a structured, well-defined environment, which makes fully driverless operation a concrete, near-term milestone rather than a long-term ambition. The Role This is the most senior technical position in the company. As Chief Technology Officer, you will lead the full technical organization of 60 to 70 people across autonomy, hardware and engineering, reporting to the founders. Your primary goal in the first year is to lead the company to its first iteration of driverless operations. You will set the technical direction, build and lead a world-class engineering organization, and represent the company’s technology to investors, partners and the wider industry. The role will grow with the business through its next stages of funding and scale. What You Will Do Own the technical vision, roadmap and architecture for reaching fully driverless operations Lead and scale the engineering organization across autonomy, hardware and software Make clear, decisive technical calls that move the team forward quickly Build a strong leadership team and attract top engineering talent Drive a culture of safety, systems rigor and fast, accountable execution Represent the company’s technology with investors, partners and at industry events Shape the technical organization as the company scales through future funding rounds What We Are Looking For Director level or above at an autonomous driving company (robotaxi, autonomous trucking or similar) Direct experience on the autonomy stack itself, having seen autonomy taken from early development into live production at scale A track record of building, growing and leading high-performing engineering teams Strong independent technical judgment and the confidence to make decisive calls Comfort working at startup pace, with real timelines and high ownership A strong network and the ability to attract top-tier engineering talent Specialists from one area of the stack (such as perception, planning or localization) will be considered if they bring Director-level leadership and exposure across the wider stack. Distinguished Engineers from autonomy are also welcome to apply. Nice to Have Experience with safety-critical systems and functional safety (e.g. ISO 26262, SOTIF) Experience presenting to investors or boards, or speaking at industry events Why Join The top technical seat at a commercially deployed, revenue-generating autonomy company A clear, achievable path to driverless operations in a structured environment Well funded after a recent growth round, with the fleet scaling significantly Highly flexible compensation, with a top-of-market base and a significant equity stake Fully remote across North America A fast, founder-led interview process

Robotics Researcher, World-Action Models (first robotics research hire) San Francisco, on-site 5 days a week. Up to around $300k base plus equity. The company: A Series A multimodal data lab of about 30 people, backed by Tier 1 investors and already generating strong revenue from top AI labs. It curates video, egocentric, tactile and 3D training data, and is moving from generative AI into physical AI. The role: Train and evaluate world-action models and 3D perception systems to show which data actually improves robot capabilities. You own projects from question to answer, report to the CTO, and set the research direction as the first hire in this area. What you will do Train and post-train action-conditioned world models and policies (manipulation, commanded actions, camera motion). Run data ablations across egocentric human video, teleop and robot rollouts. Build 3D labelling pipelines from raw video: depth, camera trajectories, hand/body/object pose, point tracks, reconstruction. Design held-out evaluations and benchmarks; use simulation where it makes them cheaper. Turn findings into curation and capture specs, and publish papers, datasets and benchmarks. What you need 4+ years in robot learning, embodied AI or 3D computer vision. PhD welcome, not required. Have trained a policy or world model (VLA, diffusion policy, imitation learning, action-conditioned video model) and tested it on unseen data. Hands-on 3D vision: multi-view geometry, depth, pose, tracking or reconstruction. Fluent Python with PyTorch or JAX; rigorous with baselines and ablations. Clear communicator. Nice to have: learning from egocentric or human video and retargeting to robots; policies deployed on real hardware; MuJoCo or Isaac Sim; large-scale distributed training; early-stage startup experience.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Localization Autonomous Vehicles | Remote (US or Canada) $187,000 – $250,000 base + bonus + equity About the company Our client is a well-funded autonomous driving company building Level 4 self-driving technology. It has strong long-term backing and is moving toward commercial deployment, so the models built now will run in real-world operation. About the team You’ll join the localization team, which builds the ML models, state estimation algorithms and production software that tell the vehicle exactly where it is and how it’s moving, in real time. The team fuses data from cameras, LiDAR, radar and other sensors, and works closely with perception, mapping, planning and controls. What you’ll do Design, train and deploy production ML models for learned localization, odometry, pose estimation, sensor calibration and map matching Build scalable training and evaluation pipelines in PyTorch on large real-world datasets Improve state estimation and multi-sensor fusion algorithms Analyze large-scale data to find failure modes and drive improvements Write production code in Python and C++ Own features end to end and lead design discussions What we’re looking for Hands-on experience developing your own ML models for localization problems, including architecture, training, loss functions and experimentation Experience with learned localization, odometry, pose or state estimation, calibration or map matching Strong PyTorch and Python skills A solid grounding in 3D geometry, coordinate transforms and probabilistic estimation Experience taking models into production An MS with 3+ years of relevant experience, a PhD with 1+ year, or equivalent Nice to have Traditional localization experience such as SLAM, visual odometry, factor graphs or Kalman filtering, alongside modern ML C++ Distributed training, real-time deployment or uncertainty-aware ML Backgrounds welcome Automotive, robotics, aerospace, drones, industrial robotics and mobile localization are all welcome. Strong PhDs with applied research are encouraged to apply. Why join Build the core localization models for a Level 4 system heading into commercial deployment Develop your own models, not off-the-shelf solutions Work with large-scale real-world sensor data Fully remote, with visa sponsorship available

Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d) – Hybrid Infrastructure Location: Berlin, Germany | Employment: Full-time Start: As soon as possible Build the infrastructure behind real-world autonomous driving. DeepRec is partnering with a German autonomous driving company developing a full Level 4 system for European roads. Combining perception, explainable AI, decision-making and vehicle control, the team is building technology designed to make autonomous mobility safe, understandable and ready for certification. We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to develop and operate the hybrid infrastructure supporting its engineering teams, vehicle test data and technical monitoring systems. The role You’ll work across on-premises and cloud environments, taking ownership of Kubernetes infrastructure, automation and observability while helping developers resolve practical problems. A major focus will be preparing the technical monitoring system for 24/7 operation. You’ll also help manage and filter data from vehicle testing and training activities, making it available for analysis and model development. This is initially a hands-on individual contributor role, with the potential to move into team leadership as the function grows. Participation in a future on-call rota will be part of the role. What you’ll do Build, maintain and improve hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises systems and cloud providers. Manage Kubernetes environments, including AWS EKS, and support reliable containerised workloads. Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible, alongside improvements to CI/CD pipelines. Support developers with deployment, infrastructure and environment issues, turning recurring problems into lasting improvements. Develop monitoring, logging, metrics and tracing to give engineering teams clear visibility into system health and failures. Prepare the technical monitoring platform for continuous operation, including alerting, troubleshooting and operational readiness. Manage data lake infrastructure and workflows for ingesting, processing and filtering vehicle test and training data. Evaluate cloud, NeoCloud and GPU-as-a-Service providers against workload requirements, reliability and cost. Support secure access management and reliable communication between services. What you’ll bring At least six years of relevant experience across DevOps, systems administration, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering. Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, including AWS EKS. Experience operating hybrid environments and understanding the networking and operational challenges between on-premises and cloud systems. Practical knowledge of Terraform, Ansible and infrastructure automation. Experience with AWS, Docker and CI/CD workflows. Hands-on monitoring and alerting experience using Grafana and Prometheus. Strong systems troubleshooting skills and a sound understanding of TCP/IP networking. A collaborative approach to supporting developers, balancing immediate fixes with longer-term platform improvements. A structured working style, curiosity about new technologies and a willingness to learn from experimentation. Professional working proficiency in English; German is a plus. Willingness to participate in on-call support as the platform moves towards 24/7 operation. A background progressing from systems administration into DevOps would be particularly relevant. Useful additional experience Kafka for event handling and data streaming. Data lakes and workflows for large volumes of test or training data. Keycloak or Active Directory for identity and access management. Envoy or service mesh technologies for service communication and observability. OpenTelemetry and the Grafana LGTM stack: Loki, Grafana, Tempo and Mimir. NeoCloud providers, GPU-as-a-Service or infrastructure supporting AI workloads. GitHub and Jira. Cloud certifications from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or other relevant providers. Mentoring engineers or taking on technical leadership responsibilities. Why join? You’ll help shape the infrastructure connecting autonomous driving development, vehicle data and operational monitoring. Your work will directly influence how effectively engineers build, test and troubleshoot the technology. There’s scope to make meaningful platform decisions, explore new infrastructure providers and establish the practices needed for reliable round-the-clock operation. As the team expands, there may also be an opportunity to grow into a leadership position.

Summary An opportunity to take on a senior technical leadership role within an innovative deep-tech business working to advance the development of practical quantum computing systems. You will lead the software function, setting the technical direction, overseeing architecture and development, and building a team capable of delivering complex, scalable software solutions. The role combines strategic ownership with technical leadership, working closely with other engineering teams to turn cutting-edge research and technology into operational products.  Responsibilities Software strategy & architecture: Define and own the overall software architecture and technical roadmap, making key build-versus-buy decisions and establishing scalable, modular frameworks. Full-stack software development: Lead the development of the complete quantum software stack, including pulse-level control, automated tuning and calibration, compilation, runtime scheduling and APIs. Team leadership: Build, recruit and mentor a high-performing software engineering team, establishing strong engineering practices, development standards and CI/CD processes. Scalability & fault tolerance: Guide the evolution of software infrastructure and runtime systems to support quantum error correction, real-time classical processing and fault-tolerant computing. Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with quantum hardware, device physics, semiconductor and quantum error correction teams to translate system requirements into technical deliverables. Manage external software partnerships where required. Requirements Software architecture: Significant experience architecting, developing and delivering complex, modular and maintainable production-grade software systems. Technical expertise: Strong hands-on programming ability, particularly in Python, with a solid understanding of hardware interfaces, runtime performance and system-level trade-offs. Leadership experience: Proven experience building, recruiting and leading software engineering teams, ideally within deep-tech, scientific computing or high-performance computing environments. Strategic ownership: Experience defining technical roadmaps, evaluating technologies and translating broader business objectives into executable development plans. Quantum computing knowledge: Familiarity with quantum computing software stacks, frameworks such as Qiskit, Cirq or OpenQASM, quantum compilers, real-time control or quantum error correction. Benefits Opportunity to work at the forefront of quantum computing and contribute to the development of scalable quantum systems. Join an ambitious, international and highly technical team within a leading European quantum technology ecosystem. Flexible working hours and hybrid working arrangements. 30 days of annual leave, in addition to public holidays. Competitive salary package, including an 8% holiday allowance and stock appreciation rights. Support for international conference attendance, networking and industry partnerships.

AI Hardware + Software Company (Stealth) | San Francisco, CA | Hybrid   About the Role We are seeking a founding-team Senior Inference Engineer to join our core SpeechLLM lab. You will be responsible for building and optimizing high-throughput, ultra-low-latency inference engines for large language models and foundational speech models. This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture of a next-generation AI system that natively understands and generates speech as part of a hardware-software intelligence platform.   You May Be a Good Fit If You Have hands-on experience building and deploying high-throughput, ultra-low-latency inference engines for large language models or foundational speech models. Understand the intricate tradeoffs between latency, throughput, and Time-To-First-Token (or Time-To-First-Audio) in real-time streaming environments. Have practical experience with continuous batching, KV cache management (e.g., PagedAttention), and stateful connections for real-time conversational AI. Possess a deep understanding of GPU architectures (NVIDIA Ampere/Hopper) and the memory hierarchy, allowing you to identify and eliminate hardware bottlenecks. Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively at the intersection of core ML training and backend infrastructure teams. Thrive in fast-moving environments and genuinely enjoy the systems engineering challenge of squeezing every last drop of performance out of a GPU cluster.   Strong Candidates May Also Have Frontier Serving Frameworks: Deep, under-the-hood familiarity with modern LLM serving frameworks such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, or NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (open-source contributions are a strong plus). Real-Time Audio Streaming: Experience handling continuous audio streams over WebSockets or WebRTC, deploying neural audio codecs, and managing chunked audio generation to minimize conversational latency. Advanced Inference Techniques: Hands-on implementation of speculative decoding, lookahead decoding, or chunked prefill techniques. Model Compression and Quantization: Experience with post-training quantization (PTQ) and deploying models in FP8, INT8, AWQ, or GPTQ without degrading audio naturalness or ASR accuracy. Large-Scale Distributed Systems: Experience deploying multi-GPU (Tensor Parallelism) and multi-node inference pipelines and managing autoscaling infrastructure via Kubernetes.   What We Offer Meaningful early-stage equity and the opportunity to be a foundational member of a core research and engineering lab. Highly competitive base salary: $200K to $540K depending on experience, plus performance bonus and equity. Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision coverage with a generous employer subsidy. 401(k) with company matching. Unlimited PTO plus 13 paid holidays. 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of gender. Hybrid working model with a minimum of 3 days per week in-office. Top-of-the-line laptop or workstation, annual team offsites, and a fully stocked office.

Technical Product Manager  Germany | Hybrid from Heidelberg You’ll help shape how AI workloads are scheduled and how compute resources are allocated and used. This is an opportunity to join a growing AI infrastructure business and take ownership of key areas of its AI Scheduling & Orchestration product. You’ll work closely with engineers and customers to improve how AI workloads are managed, how compute resources are allocated and how infrastructure performance and reliability can be improved as demand grows. The product focuses on some of the practical challenges of running AI infrastructure: workload management, resource allocation, scheduling and making the best use of expensive compute resources. You’ll have real ownership. You’ll turn technical challenges and customer requirements into clear product decisions, influence the roadmap and drive initiatives from discovery through development, launch and iteration. There will also be opportunities to contribute to areas such as simulation, capacity planning and workload analytics as the product develops. This could suit you if you’re a Technical Product Manager working across cloud infrastructure, platforms, developer tooling, Kubernetes or distributed systems and want to move further into the AI infrastructure market. You’ll need: 3+ years of Technical Product Management or Product Management experience, with ownership of a technical product or significant product capability Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, including workloads, resource management and orchestration Experience with scheduling, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure or related platform technologies Ability to translate technical complexity and customer needs into clear requirements and product decisions Experience working closely with engineers, understanding technical trade-offs and contributing to product roadmaps A technical background through education or hands-on engineering experience Experience with GPU scheduling, Kubernetes Scheduler, Kueue, Volcano, Slurm, AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, distributed training or inference would be particularly relevant. You’ll be based in Germany and able to work from the Heidelberg office on a hybrid basis. Some travel may be required to collaborate with the US team and customers. If you’re interested in building products at the intersection of AI, infrastructure and resource management, I’d be happy to tell you more.

FPGA Design Engineer | Quantum Computing Netherlands · Hybrid · Expected salary €80,000–€85,000 How do you control and read out hundreds of qubits in parallel when a few nanoseconds matter? I’m recruiting an FPGA Design Engineer to help solve that problem by building the digital hardware behind large-scale quantum computers. You’ll design RTL for a distributed control system where timing, synchronisation and communication between devices are central to the job. Your work will help determine how precisely the system can control qubits and how reliably it can read them out as the system scales. What you’ll work on Design and verify FPGA logic for parallel qubit control, readout and communication between devices. Tackle nanosecond-level synchronisation across a distributed hardware system. Own FPGA design work from RTL implementation through verification and debugging. Work with engineers across digital design, electronics and software to integrate your logic into the wider system and shape technical decisions. What I’m looking for Hands-on FPGA design experience and confidence writing synthesizable RTL in VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog. Experience verifying and debugging digital designs through simulation or on hardware. A solid grasp of digital design fundamentals, including clocking, timing and interfaces. An interest in taking ownership of complex design work and seeing it run on real hardware. If you’ve worked on timing-sensitive FPGA designs in areas such as telecommunications, RF, instrumentation or high-speed data acquisition, I’d be interested in hearing about a design you owned and the hardest problem you had to solve. Apply with your CV or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the role. Curtis Holben DeepRec.ai