Founding CAIO (m/f/d)

The Mission

We at beyondbots don’t believe in simple LLM wrappers – we are building true, multi-modal AI solutions from the ground up. While our CPTO ensures a robust, scalable backbone, you, as our Chief AI Officer, are the AI evangelist who creates high business value for our clients with differentiating models and algorithms. You are not just a strategist in a boardroom; you dive deep into the engine room of the models. You bring the technical breadth to evaluate domains fast, make pragmatic bets, and lead a team of elite AI engineers from rapid prototype to reliable production system.

Your Responsibilities

1. AI Architecture & Hands-on Prototyping

• Architect from Scratch: Define our AI stack from the ground up. Make sound, pragmatic "build vs. buy" decisions – knowing exactly when to rely on frontier models via API and when custom fine-tuning of open-weight models provides the crucial competitive edge.
• Bridge AI Domains: Seamlessly connect Generative AI and LLMs with classical Machine/Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Operations Research, and Forecasting. You have enough breadth across domains – whether NLP, voice, time-series, or optimization – to evaluate opportunities fast and go deep where it counts.
• Complex Systems: Design reliable multi-agent systems and advanced RAG pipelines that go far beyond simple vector-search queries. You know which architecture fits the problem – and you know when a simpler solution is the smarter choice.
• From Paper to Code: Identify the latest breakthroughs in AI research and rapidly transform promising papers and repos into production-ready blueprints.

• Production Rigor & LLMOps: Own the journey from R&D to production. Implement rigorous evaluation frameworks (e.g., LLM-as-a-Judge, Ragas) to ensure models operate performantly and with strictly minimized hallucinations.
• Enterprise Security & Privacy: Design AI architectures with enterprise-grade security at their core (VPC deployments, strict tenant isolation).
• The Data Flywheel: Build feedback loops that systematically improve our models based on user interactions while strictly maintaining data privacy.
• Cost Efficiency: Continuously monitor and optimize inference efficiency and compute costs for us and our clients.
  

• Build and Lead the AI Team: You are joining at the ground floor and will actively shape the team around you – hiring, mentoring, and technically elevating a small group of highly qualified AI engineers.
• The Undisputed Technical Authority: You lead by example through architecture reviews and pair programming. Your team learns from you daily – not because you tell them to, but because they want to.
  
• Inspiring Leader: Act as a talent magnet who attracts, inspires, and technically challenges top engineers. You split your time roughly between hands-on engineering and technical leadership – and you're comfortable in both modes.
• Peer of the C-Suite: You work closely with our CPTO and the other founding team members to translate AI opportunities into product strategy and business outcomes.

• Broad AI Track Record: You have successfully delivered across multiple AI domains – whether NLP, voice, forecasting, or optimization – and taken complex ML and LLM systems from research to scalable production. You measure your success by real-world impact, not years of experience.
• Under the Hood Expertise: You don't just wrap APIs using frameworks like LangChain; you deeply understand the underlying neural network architectures (Transformers, Attention mechanisms) and know when to go custom.
• Hands-on AI Engineering: You have deep, practical experience with fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA) and inference optimization (vLLM, quantization). AI is engineering to you, not magic.
• Backend & MLOps Mastery: Excellent Python/PyTorch skills. Strong backend engineering capabilities (FastAPI, REST, async architectures) combined with a solid understanding of ML infrastructure, vector databases, and CI/CD for Machine Learning.
• Founder Mindset: "Low ego, high commitment." Even as part of the leadership team, you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty and write the code for a new core algorithm yourself. You thrive in ambiguity and see an undefined product space as an opportunity, not a blocker.
• Communication: English business fluency is required. German is a plus.
• Location: Based in our Munich hub (hybrid work possible, with regular on-sites 3–4 times per month).

Optional Requirements:

• A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative field.
• A strong footprint in the Open-Source community (GitHub, HuggingFace, publications, or tech talks).
• Hands-on experience with specialized architectures (e.g., Graph Neural Networks, Deep RL) or low-level optimizations (CUDA, Triton).

This role is NOT for you if:

• You prefer managing managers and budgets over discussing architecture and user flows.
• Your last experience with hands-on coding was during your academic studies.
• You need a fully defined product vision before you can start building.
• Team culture and close collaboration is everything for us – do not apply if you like tech more than people.
  Team culture and close collaboration is everything for us – do not apply if you like tech more than people.
  

What we offer you:

• Founding Member: You are part of the founding team and the C-Suite of beyondbots. You will own the overall technical platform development and product roadmap.
• Shared Victory: Your high-stakes contributions are rewarded with an attractive bonus and employee stock option program (VSOP).
• Validated Use Cases for Product Development: Ready access to concrete, high-impact problems to solve, ensuring product relevance and fast time-to-market.
• Team Culture: A highly skilled team that enjoys its work and offers a politics- and ego-free zone.
• Established Brand and Company: A recognized name in the industry with a solid foundation, providing stability and market trust for new product initiatives.
  
  

Simply apply here.

Let's go!🚀