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Epoch AI is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to align our tech stack with our organization's long-term goals. Responsibilities will include managing a team of 3-5 engineers, and overseeing our website development, databases, and AI evaluation infrastructure.

About the role

Epoch AI is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our engineering team. As CTO, you will help shape our strategic direction and ensure the alignment of our tech stack—including the Epoch AI website, databases, data collection systems, and AI evaluation infrastructure—with the organization's broader mission and priorities. We are rapidly growing, and our impact depends on robust, well-maintained software to help us reach key decision-makers and the public. We need a CTO who can ensure our technology supports our ambitious growth and publication objectives.

Day-to-day responsibilities will include leading a team of software and infra engineers to develop and maintain our website, benchmark pipeline, and benchmarking projects. You will be asked to mentor engineers, identify and lead new priorities, make and shepherd high-level decisions about our tech stack, and occasionally code and review code yourself. You will oversee and potentially expand our engineering team, fostering technical excellence and agility, and ensuring our infrastructure scales effectively as we grow. You will collaborate closely with leadership, researchers, designers, and stakeholders to translate organizational goals into clear technical roadmaps. You should be experienced in full-stack development, comfortable managing a team, and deeply interested in Epoch’s mission.

This role reports directly to Jaime Sevilla, Director of Epoch AI. This is a full-time and fully remote role; however, a successful candidate will be required to maintain overlap in working hours with both UTC and UTC–8 timezones, since we have a global team spread out across these timezones.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of 3–5 engineers, helping them set priorities, develop best practices, and improve their technical skills.
• Develop and communicate a clear technical strategy aligned with Epoch AI’s long-term mission. Work closely with leadership to translate organizational goals into a clear and actionable software engineering roadmap.
• Oversee architecture, infrastructure, and security across Epoch AI's technology stack, including web platforms, databases, benchmarking systems, and internal tools.
• Make strategic technology, personnel, and budget decisions, ensuring efficient resource allocation and hiring as required.
• Lead the engineering team to think beyond immediate tasks, encouraging decisions that support long-term scalability, maintainability, and future growth, while ensuring lean execution and fast delivery cycles.
• Guide the team in developing interactive data visualization and related tools to support lean research publication workflows.

What We Are Looking For

Requirements:

• Significant management/leadership experience in a technical role (4+ years strongly preferred). Demonstrated success scaling and managing engineering teams and infrastructure in rapidly growing environments.
• Exceptional technical expertise as a software engineer, with a track record of delivering high-quality, impactful engineering projects and deep familiarity with best practices in software development.
• Strong background in system architecture, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and managing diverse technology stacks.
• Ownership mindset—you can drive high-level planning while also being comfortable with hands-on execution, obsessing over every detail and taking initiative to do whatever is needed to get things done.
• Deep interest in Epoch AI’s mission to investigate the future and impact of AI.