Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - REMOTE

## **About the Company**

We are a stealth-stage AI venture emerging from a global leader in energy and industrial innovation. Backed by a committed corporate anchor investor and operating at the intersection of AI, chemistry, and decarbonization, the company is building a category-defining platform to accelerate compound discovery and optimization - starting with critical challenges in energy and emissions.

This is not an idea-stage startup. The venture has a validated technical foundation and a paid commercial pilot with a Fortune 500 energy partner

## **About the Role**

As CTO, you'll own the end-to-end technical vision for Morio: from AI architecture to lab automation. You'll take the helm of a platform already showing breakthrough results in CO2 capture—now ready to scale. You'll guide the convergence of ML, computational chemistry, and robotic workflows, leading a world-class team to build the industry's first closed-loop discovery engine for advanced materials.

You'll work closely with the CEO and Chief Scientist to translate research breakthroughs into scalable, defensible products—and set the technical culture for a high-performance team operating at the intersection of science and engineering.

This is a founder-track role with significant equity and the opportunity to define the category of autonomous science platforms.

## **What You'll Do**

• **Architect the Platform:** Own the design and buildout of our AI–powered discovery engine and robotic lab infrastructure.
• **Lead Engineering & ML:** Direct teams across data engineering, ML, simulation, and lab automation to integrate physical and digital discovery loops.
• **Productize Science:** Translate cutting-edge research into scalable APIs, pipelines, and tools.
• **Own IP & Infrastructure:** Ensure defensibility via software, models, data, and system architecture.
• **Build the Team:** Recruit and mentor top-tier technical talent across ML, software, automation, and data science.
• **Partner Closely with Science:** Collaborate with the Chief Scientist and domain experts to bridge chemistry and compute.
• **Scale Systems:** Design for reproducibility, experiment tracking, and high-throughput discovery workflows.

## **What We're Looking For**

• Track record of leading 0–1 product development in AI/ML, scientific computing, or robotics
• Experience deploying cloud infrastructure for scientific workflows (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem/hybrid)
• Technical fluency across ML, generative models, computational chemistry, or lab systems
• Strong instincts for building scalable architecture, balancing rigor with speed
• Familiarity with GNNs, diffusion models, active learning, or reinforcement learning in physical contexts
• IP experience (software patents, defensible system architecture, etc.)

## **What Sets You Apart**

• Systems Thinker: Sees end-to-end—from lab hardware to ML ops to customer value
• Builder's Mindset: You're hands-on, yet capable of setting technical strategy and scaling teams
• Deep–Tech Operator: Knows what it takes to move from research prototype to product deployment
• Customer-Oriented Technologist: Understands how technology enables real-world industrial impact
• Collaborative Leader: Thrives at the intersection of science, engineering, and commercial execution

## **Why This Role Matters**

We're building a system to compress 10–20 year R&D cycles into 1–2 years. The technical architecture you build will define not just the success of this venture—but the blueprint for how industrial science gets done in the AI era.

## Compensation

• Base: $230-260k
• Bonus: 10-15%
• + Significant Equity