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About the Role
IRIS is rebuilding the fundraising process by providing AI-powered personal fundraising agents for exceptional founders. The Founding CTO will lead the technical build, shape product and architecture, and grow the engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Translate real-world network behavior into structured data and intelligent, AI-driven workflows.
- Own the product architecture from MVP to scale across email, WhatsApp, phone, and web on a secure, serverless cloud foundation.
- Design AI systems with a strong focus on safety, fairness, privacy, and transparency, ensuring recommendations and matching logic are responsible, explainable, and free from harmful bias.
- Implement best practices for AI governance, model evaluation, and responsible data usage as the platform scales.
- Understand user requirements and work with the CEO to build the technical strategy and roadmap.
- Be hands-on and build and lead the engineering team as the company grows.
Requirements
- Strong AI engineering background with hands-on experience building and scaling AI or data-driven products in production.
- Experience building trustworthy AI products, including model evaluation, bias mitigation, privacy-preserving systems, and safe deployment practices.
- Deep technical familiarity with modern cloud and serverless infrastructure.
- Ability to move fast from zero to one with limited resources.
- Product-minded engineer who understands user behavior and real-world workflows.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and shaping technical direction.
- Experience in the venture ecosystem is a strong advantage.
- Willing to work close to European hours.
- Please share your LinkedIn and GitHub/any project you have worked on.
Skills
- AI engineering
- AI systems design
- AI governance
- Model evaluation
- Bias mitigation
- Privacy-preserving systems
- Safe deployment practices
- Cloud infrastructure
- Serverless infrastructure
- Product architecture
- Data-driven products
Location
- European hours
Work Type
- Founding role
Experience Level
- Founding CTO
- Zero to one experience
Benefits
- Build a product that meaningfully changes who gets funded.
- Shape a new category of AI product.
- Founding equity, high ownership, real impact.
- Work directly with a founder who has built and raised VC capital before.
- Shape the technical and ethical foundations of the product from day one.
About the Company
- IRIS is rebuilding the fundraising process by providing AI-powered personal fundraising agents for exceptional founders.
- The way capital gets allocated today is inefficient and unfair.
- IRIS is an attempt to fix it at the infrastructure level by opening access to closed networks, routing capital toward fit and merit rather than proximity, and moving founders forward with the coaching and preparation they need to succeed.
- IRIS lives where founders and investors already work, across email, WhatsApp, phone, and web.
- Starting with women founders in Europe, building toward every founder in every market who has been raising on the wrong side of the network.