Employment type: Full-time, founding team Location: Remote-first Reports to: CEO and founder Role summary The CTO is the technical co-founder who owns Ensuc's technology direction, engineering quality and technical credibility with customers and investors. You will lead the company from a validated product to production deployments, and build the engineering organization behind it.

Responsibilities Set the technology vision, roadmap and architecture decisions for the Chrono product line. Lead hardware validation and the first design-partner deployments. Recruit, lead and mentor the early engineering team.

Work with the CEO on intellectual property strategy and technical diligence. Represent the company technically to customers, partners and investors. Make build, buy and open-source decisions, and manage technical risk.

Establish engineering practices for security, reliability and performance.

Required skills and experience 8+ years in software engineering, with deep distributed systems or infrastructure experience. 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role (Staff, Principal, Head of, Director or CTO). Production ownership of large-scale infrastructure software, ideally cluster scheduling,



orchestration or resource management. Hands-on experience with GPU, HPC or cloud-scale compute environments. Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (C++, Rust or Go).

Experience hiring and leading engineering teams. Robust communication skills with both technical and executive audiences.

Preferred skills Kubernetes scheduling ecosystem or Slurm experience. Applied optimization or machine learning in systems settings. Prior startup, founder or early-employee experience.

Experience with security-sensitive or on-premises deployments.

Compensation Founding-team equity with vesting. Co-founder salary and equity terms will be defined and agreed with the founder as the company's funding progresses. Send your CV or LinkedIn profile and a short note (under 200 words) covering: The most relevant system, team or deal you have led. Why founding-stage equity-based work fits you now. Your availability and time zone. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to sign a mutual NDA before discussing product details, equity or financials.

📌 Co-founder & CTO (Ontario)
🏢 ENSUC
📍 Ontario