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Co-Founder / CTO (AI)
TSS · AI / Data Infrastructure / GreenTech · 📍 Hérault, Occitanie, FR
Early-stage AI startup seeks a technical co-founder to pair with the founding CEO and jointly build Deposium®, a sovereign AI-powered ETL/data ingestion platform — a classic late co-founder search to complement a non-CTO founder.
Reports to
CEO
Company stage
startup
Source
adzuna
Key responsibilities
- Define and own the technical architecture of Deposium® (AI-powered ETL/ingestion platform)
- Co-lead company strategy and product roadmap alongside the CEO founder
- Build and lead the technical team from the ground up
- Drive R&D on AI and digital sovereignty use cases
- Represent technical vision to investors, partners, and clients
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise in AI, data engineering, and/or ETL systems
- Entrepreneurial mindset with appetite for co-founder risk and equity model
- Ability to operate as a technical lead in a 0-to-1 startup environment
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation details provided
- ⚠ Very early stage — significant execution risk with a 1-person founding team
- ⚠ No prior hiring history to benchmark company behavior
- ⚠ Truncated job description limits full scope assessment
- ⚠ Hérault location may limit talent pool for a technical co-founder
- ✓ Founder has 25 years of domain expertise, reducing technical ambiguity
- ✓ Proprietary registered product (Deposium®) suggests real IP and early validation
- ✓ Positioned at intersection of AI and digital sovereignty — high-relevance market in France/EU
- ✓ Co-founder framing likely implies meaningful equity stake