Technical Co-founder (CTO)

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# Technical Co-founder (CTO) > FutureSight · Seattle, United States (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-09-01 **Workplace:** remote **Department:** Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder ## Description ### The Opportunity FutureSight is seeking an applied AI builder to co-found and lead the technical direction of a new B2B AI venture from the ground up. This is a co-founder partnership with founder-level equity and founder-level authority, not a salaried executive role. We are not looking for someone who manages engineers from a distance or adds AI language to a traditional CTO resume. We are looking for someone who can take a vague problem, frame it clearly, design the right system, and turn it into something customers actually use and trust. If you've gone from ambiguity to working product before — and you want to do it again with the backing of an experienced venture building team — this is the opportunity. This is a full-time, exclusive commitment to building and owning a single B2B AI venture from the ground up. ### About FutureSight FutureSight is a leading venture builder that co-creates world-class software companies with values-driven entrepreneurs from inception to exit. We are a team of founders, operators and designers with experience successfully bringing software to market at scale. You'll co-create with a proven venture building team, including: - John Carbrey – 4x founder, bootstrapped to $100M ARR - Joshua Auslander – Seasoned CFO and strategic advisor with $200M aggregate exits - Alan Smith – Globally recognized early stage validation expert, 24 products launched, an exit, 5M+ books sold - Prathna Ramesh – Early-stage investor and capital strategy advisor ### The Partnership - Founder-level equity with meaningful ownership from inception, aligned across funding rounds - Founder-level authority, including co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategy - Pre-seed capital committed by FutureSight for early hires and MVP development, with potential for follow-on funding - A proven process and playbook for taking ventures from 0 to 1, informed by our team's prior experience and mistakes - Venture building and scaling resources, including embedded design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day one - Investor and advisor network across B2B AI and early-stage capital markets - A true co-creation model in which you operate as CTO with FutureSight's cross-functional team as your partner — building alongside you. ### What you'll own As Co-Founder & CTO, you will set the venture's technical direction and lead its execution. This is a co-founder role, not a CTO hire. - Technical Direction — Own problem framing, architecture, system design, and product judgment from day one, translating rough product intent into structure, context, and specs that both humans and AI systems can execute against - Build — Use modern tools and frontier models to move fast without sacrificing quality or maintainability, designing agentic systems with first-principles thinking and knowing when orchestration adds genuine leverage versus when simplicity is the better call - Customer & Market — Be the primary technical voice in early customer conversations, understanding real workflows and shaping the right product rather than just shipping quickly - Traction Before Scale — Prove there is something worth scaling before thinking about scaling it, focusing on traction first and team-building second - Capital — Contribute to fundraising, from investor conversations to due diligence - Team — Recruit and grow a technical team when the time is right, and establish the cultural foundation of the company ### Co-Founder Profile - Proven track record of shipping AI products to real users under real-world constraints — not research, experiments, or prototypes - Deep practical experience with frontier models, LLM-based systems, and agentic architectures, with strong system design instincts and a bias for simplicity and maintainability - Strong translation layer skills — able to turn messy product intent into clear structure, constraints, and specs that both humans and AI systems can act on - Close to the customer, comfortable in customer conversations, and able to let real workflows shape what you build - Rigorous about verification — feedback loops, evaluation, and systems that can be trusted - Prior experience as a technical co-founder or early engineering leader, with fundraising experience a strong plus - Founder at heart — energized by ambiguity, able to go far alone, and ready to commit fully ### How to Apply Please submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, and a brief note on why this venture aligns with your goals as a founder. We will move quickly for the right candidate. FutureSight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and experiences. ## Apply [Apply at FutureSight](https://apply.workable.com/futuresight/j/E64554BAE1/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)