Field CTO

Location: San Francisco, USA
Salary range: Not stated
Workplace: In office
Posted: Recently

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The role, in T&S terms

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Field CTO role for an AI security vendor selling to frontier AI labs, where sales conversations start as technical questions. The person designs engagements after understanding a lab's real systems, and runs the Bay Area technical front line and community with the labs' post-training, safety and security leads. The posting says the role also feeds market signals back into the company's roadmap and AI Labs pod agenda.

AI misuse and jailbreaks

What you'd do

Serve as the first technical contact in Bay Area client meetings, RFPs and new scopes.
Run deep discovery conversations and turn them into scopes that research and delivery can execute.
Answer technical pushback during live deep dives with lab engineering and research teams.
Own top and middle of funnel, defining partnerships while sales owns the commercial close.
Run roughly ten Bay Area events a year for frontier-lab post-training, safety and security leads, including closed sessions.
Represent the company at conferences, analyst briefings, technical talks and joint research.
Work with the CTO to surface market needs and push them into the product roadmap.

What it asks for

8+ years as a Principal Solution Architect or equivalent (required)
Understanding of how frontier labs procure and partner with vendors (required)
Record of taking research into shipped product and revenue at scale (required)
Credibility with frontier-lab researchers and comfort as a public technical voice (required)
Live network in the Bay Area AI and security community, based in the Bay Area (required)
Fluency working across the Israel time zone (required)

Terms in this role

Red teaming.: Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.

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