Field CTO

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Field CTO serving frontier AI labs through technical discovery, partnerships, and community building. Shaping AI security research and product strategy for Alice, a trust and safety company.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the Tier 1 technical voice in client meetings, RFPs, and novel scopes
  • Conduct deep discovery conversations and convert them into executable scopes for research and delivery teams
  • Own the top and middle of the funnel by creating conversations, earning technical wins, and defining partnerships
  • Handle objections during live technical deep dives with engineering and research teams
  • Build the frontier-lab community in the Valley through small, high-signal events
  • Engage with post-training, safety, and security leads from frontier labs
  • Represent Alice at conferences, analyst briefings, technical talks, and joint research
  • Carry market signals back into the company and help identify emerging priorities
  • Work with the CTO to define the next strategic opportunity and push it into the roadmap
  • Influence the AI Labs pod agenda, AI security research priorities, and product direction
  • Establish how Alice operates in the Valley and serve as the key person on the ground
  • Interview for adjacent roles, support hiring in the region, and represent Alice locally

Requirements:

  • 8+ relevant years of experience as a Field CTO or related positions
  • Deep, current understanding of AI systems security, including agents, tools, orchestration, data flow, guardrails, red teaming, and evals
  • Working knowledge of how frontier labs buy from and work with vendors
  • Track record turning research into shipped product and revenue at scale
  • Credibility in front of frontier-lab researchers
  • Comfort as a public technical voice
  • Bay Area base with a live network in the Valley AI and security community
  • Fluent working across the Israel time zone
  • Nice to have: hands-on experience with RL post-training, GRPO, agentic environments, or eval harness design
  • Nice to have: prior experience inside a frontier lab, research organisation, or vendor selling into one
  • Nice to have: experience being the first senior person on the ground in a new geography

Benefits:

  • Full-time employment
  • Remote work arrangement
  • West Coast/Bay Area presence and engagement
  • Opportunity to represent Alice at conferences, analyst briefings, technical talks, and joint research
  • Opportunity to influence AI Labs pod agenda, AI security research priorities, and product direction
  • Opportunity to interview for adjacent roles and help other departments hire in the Valley