Technical Cofounder / CTO | AI & ML PreSeed Startup
Founders Factory is hiring for the position of Technical Cofounder / CTO | AI & ML PreSeed Startup in BERLIN / GERMANY, Germany. It is listed as a full-time position with hybrid working.
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Founders Factory is hiring for the position of Technical Cofounder / CTO | AI & ML PreSeed Startup in BERLIN / GERMANY, Germany. It is listed as a full-time position with hybrid working.
Reading the advert, the employer asks for German and English language skills.
Skills and tools named in the text include Azure, machine learning, NLP, computer vision, B2B and SaaS.
No salary is given in this listing, so check the official pay figures in the DGJ Insight section below where they exist.
Benefits mentioned in the advert: equity or stock options.
The advert does not mention visa sponsorship. If you would move to Germany for this job, check the official work permit route first (DGJ Insight lists it where we have it).
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Arbeitnow on Nov 3, 2026.
- Employer
- Founders Factory
- Location
- BERLIN / GERMANY, Germany
- Work mode
- hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer
- Languages asked
- German and English
- Found
- Nov 3, 2026 on Arbeitnow
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Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
UN living-cost index for Berlin (ICSC post adjustment 40.2), as of 1 Oct 2026.
Source: ICSC post adjustment classifications (icsc.un.org)
- EU Blue Card: Recognised degree and a job offer above the salary threshold
- Skilled worker visa (Fachkräfte): Recognised qualification and a job offer
- Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte): Points-based job search for up to one year
Official routes: Make it in Germany (Federal Government portal)
About the role
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01About us
Expertise is the bottleneck in technical field service. We are building the AI that makes it scale, and learns from every visit, from every job.
Stealth-mode AI venture building a copilot that guides technicians at every job like an experienced master craftsman, before, during and after every job
Built in the field, not behind closed doors: our product is developed with direct access to thousands of technicians with a leading European real estate industry partner, every feature is tested on real jobs, with results in days instead of months
Backed by Founders Factory; founding team in Berlin, MVP built and tested with technicians, now heading towards spin-out and first funding
Vision: Europe’s leading field service intelligence layer.
02The role
We have built and tested our MVP. Now we are looking for a hands-on Co-Founder & CTO who builds the technology and product that grows and scales the company.
03What you will do
Own the technology end to end: architecture, roadmap, build-vs-buy decisions, reliability and security
Take the tested MVP to a production-grade product used daily by technicians in the field
Build reliable AI workflows and repeatable integrations into customer systems such as work orders and asset data
Continuously improve the Machine Learning core: retrieval over manufacturer and expert knowledge, multimodal input (photo, voice) and diagnostic reasoning
Design and build the learning engine that makes the product smarter with every visit: capturing, reviewing, evaluating and reusing confirmed outcomes, the core of our knowledge moat
Set up evaluation, safety and monitoring: expert-reviewed benchmark cases, grounding, escalation and regression testing
Build a state-of-the-art UX/UI that technicians want to use every day
Spend time with technicians in the field and turn their feedback into product within days
Recruit and lead the engineering team as we scale
Shape the company as a co-founder: strategy, culture and investor conversations alongside the founding team
04What you bring
Machine Learning experience, ideally 3+ years applying it in production products (e.g. LLMs, retrieval/RAG, NLP, computer vision, model evaluation)
Entrepreneurial mindset: you want to build a company, not just a product, full ownership, bias for action and comfort with ambiguity
Experience leading the technical build of a product from zero to one, e.g. as tech lead or founding engineer
Hands-on software engineering across backend, APIs, data pipelines and cloud, you still build and ship yourself
Sound technical judgement: you know the limits of LLMs, how to test them and when not to use them
Product empathy: you enjoy learning from users in the field and making complex work simple
Fluent German and English, German is needed for working with technicians and technical source material
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning/AI, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related quantitative field
05Nice to have
PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval or a related field
Previous founder or early-stage startup experience
Experience with Microsoft Azure and enterprise B2B requirements (security, GDPR, multi-tenant SaaS)
Background in field service, industrial, maintenance or proptech software
Experience with multimodal AI, voice interfaces or decision-support systems
Experience hiring and leading engineering teams
06What we offer
Competitive compensation package, including a meaningful co-founder equity stake
A true co-founder role with ownership of the technology and a real say in the direction of the company
An unfair head start: a cooperating partner with thousands of technicians and real repair data from day one, the fuel for a system that learns from every job
A tested MVP and a clear path to spin-out and funding
Support from Founders Factory’s network across tech, design and growth
A mission with real-world impact: helping close the skilled-trades gap in Europe
07Location & start
Berlin / hybrid, flexible
Full-time; start as soon as possible
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