About the Role
Tricorder is building deployable clinical infrastructure for remote and challenging environments. This role is for the founding CTO and technical co-founder who will be hands-on in building the core engineering team and defining the technology stack.
Responsibilities
- Define the initial technology stack.
- Build the core engineering team.
- Collaborate with the CEO on product direction, pilot deployments, and technical documentation.
- Ensure end-to-end responsibility for system integration, architectural design, regulatory compliance, product validation, and team leadership.
- Work with integrated sensing, edge computing, and build data synchronization layers.
- Build resilient systems for environments with intermittent connectivity and power constraints.
- Ensure alignment with medical device regulations, data protection standards, and quality management frameworks.
- Deliver functional prototypes for clinical pilots and investor demonstrations.
- Recruit and manage the initial engineering team as the company scales.
Requirements
- A track record of shipping real products, ideally spanning both physical devices and the software that runs on and around them.
- Depth in one or more of: embedded systems / firmware, sensors and signal acquisition, edge compute, or connected-device architecture.
- Experience building in a regulated, high-trust domain (health-tech, medical devices, defence, or a comparable safety-critical field).
- Comfort with standards and evidence in regulated domains (e.g., clinical safety, data protection, medical-device / quality management frameworks).
- Pragmatism and speed at the earliest stage, including good build-vs-buy calls and comfort with ambiguity.
- Founder mentality with a desire for ownership and equity.
- Ability to carry the technical story with clinical users and investors.
- Ability to hire and raise the bar without slowing down the team.
- A personal connection to the problem being solved.
Skills
- Hardware and regulated software development
- Embedded systems / firmware
- Sensors and signal acquisition
- Edge compute
- Connected-device architecture
- System Integration
- Architectural Design
- Regulatory Compliance
- Product Validation
- Team Leadership
- AI/ML for on-device inference or sensor fusion (Nice to have)
- Hardware manufacturing and certification (Nice to have)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
- Contract
Experience Level
- Founder
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Founder-level stipend during the studio build programme + significant co-founder equity with standard vesting
Benefits
- Co-founder equity
- Stipend during the six-month build phase
- Structured support from Founders Factory studio team (product, design, growth)
About the Company
- Tricorder is building the operating system for healthcare beyond the hospital, creating a rugged, self-contained hardware and software platform for clinical teams to capture, monitor and act on patient data anywhere.
- The company is being built from scratch inside Founders Factory's studio with dedicated pre-seed investment and a six-month build programme.
- Founders Factory provides structured support through a dedicated studio team specializing in product, design, and growth.
