The Mission
Everything comes out of the ground. Therefore, scalable earthmoving is required for our civilization to exist.
Our physical world is made of minerals, concrete, ground shaped for any structure, roads, power grids…
Everything from your breakfast today to the device you are reading this on requires a single primitive: molecules of material have to move.
AIM is the physical AI platform that moves those molecules autonomously.
The AIM Platform is commercially deployed across mining and construction and is entering a critical scale phase. We aren't building a smarter machine; we are building the operating system that automates the reshaping of our planet.
The Role: Radical Autonomy & Ecosystem Automation
As the CTO, you are the architect of the autonomous future. You operate with a maximum degree of autonomy to execute the terraforming mission.
Your mandate is to ensure our technology continues to land in the complex ecosystems of our global customers and business partners. You are responsible for the technical solution that allows autonomous fleets to deliver the maximum level of safety and productivity. You play a large role in continued scaling of the company through your tech and culture leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Landing Deep Tech in the Real World
- Hardware-Software Integration: Own the end-to-end technical lifecycle of landing deep tech products that involve sophisticated sensors, ruggedized compute, and heavy-duty hardware components.
- Physical AI Deployment: Ensure our AI stack translates flawlessly to the physical world, managing the challenges of edge computing, harsh physical environments, and mission-critical safety. Own the process from data flywheel to safe product rollout.
- Deep Physical Reality Awareness: You understand embodied AI is not just SaaS. Distribution shift is the norm, sensors degrade, ground truth is whether the machine finished the shift. You fund simulation, field tests, and data infrastructure like products.
- Production Excellence: Drive scale of the AIM Platform and its distribution across the markets.
- Automating the Ecosystem
- Customer-Centric Architecture: Build technical solutions that integrate seamlessly into our customers' existing workflows, turning isolated machines into a unified, autonomous ecosystem.
- Business Partner Synergy: Collaborate with strategic partners to ensure the AIM platform acts as the universal "brain" across diverse fleets and operational sites.
- Terraforming at Scale: Lead the development of multi-agent coordination and site-level intelligence that automates the entire value chain of earthmoving.
- Hypergrowth Technical & Culture Leadership
- Scaling the Engine: You have lived through the "hypergrowth" phase of a tech startup. You know how to build and lead a multidisciplinary engineering org (AI, Robotics, Embedded Systems, Hardware) while maintaining breakneck speed.
- Technical Roadmap: Define and execute a roadmap that balances immediate customer needs with the long-term goal of planetary-scale terraforming.
- High-Bar Culture: Maintain a safe and cohesive engineering culture – one that keeps pride in building top notch solutions and customer success top of mind.
Who You Are
- The Deep Tech Veteran: You have a proven track record of landing products with hardware components. You understand that in Physical AI, "shipping" means the machine is moving dirt autonomously in a remote desert or a defense theater.
- The Hypergrowth Expert: You have scaled technical organizations within high-stakes, fast-moving startups. You thrive in the chaos of scaling and know how to build resilient systems under pressure.
- The Realist: You've led orgs where the hard problems were physical, not architectural. You know the stakes of production environments. You can tell your team when SaaS playbooks apply and when they don't.
- The Autonomous Executor: You possess a "Founder mindset." You don't wait for a manual; you build the manual. You take the mission, define the technical path, and execute with precision and attention to important details.
- The Ecosystem Visionary: You see beyond the individual machine. You understand how to build a platform that automates an entire industrial ecosystem with our customers and business partners.
Requirements
- 10+ years of technical leadership experience (CTO, Head of Eng) in Autonomous Vehicles or Deep Tech.
- Direct experience landing hardware-integrated products in production environments.
- Track record of building and leading orgs that shipped learned systems in unstructured environments.
- Hypergrowth startup background: Proven success in scaling engineering teams during rapid expansion phases.
- Deep technical fluency in AI/ML stacks, robotics software, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Based in or excited to relocate to the Greater Seattle Area.
Why AIM?
- Pedigree: Work with a team of elite operators from tech startups, Google, SpaceX, Waymo, Tesla, Stripe, Amazon.
- Scale: We are solving a trillion-dollar problem at the foundation of the global economy.
- Impact: Radical autonomy to lead the technical execution of a planetary-scale mission.
- Maturity: Join a company with real-world production systems and global revenue.
