Why xzeptiq?PlatformUse CasesResourcesOfferingCompanyDERequest more information

Join the Team

You're Joining a Small Team Doing Careful Work on a Real Problem.

No corporate hierarchy. No performance theatre. Work that requires precision, curiosity, and the ability to be wrong without drama.

How We Work

Our Culture in Three Principles

Careful Work

We do not ship things we do not understand. Correctness matters more than speed. Technical debt is a choice, not an accident.

AI-Augmented by Default

Everyone on the team is expected to build with AI tools, not just use them. We run an active internal programme for AI-augmented workflows across all roles.

Intellectual Honesty

We are building something genuinely novel. That means being wrong regularly, updating beliefs based on evidence, and not defending positions past their expiry date.

R&D Leadership · Executive Team

Open Positions

R&D Leadership Remote-first · Salzburg / Vienna Open

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Department: Engineering & Product Architecture

The Challenge

Most enterprises are deploying AI blindly, measuring software licences instead of actual value, and ignoring invisible communication silos. At xzeptiq, we are building XRAI-OS — the operating system for the Cognitive Enterprise. We are looking for a CTO who can take the technical vision of our multi-dimensional intelligence platform and scale it across regulated European enterprises. This is a role for an elite engineer-leader who understands that what a system is forbidden from doing must be architecturally impossible, not just policy-restricted.

Your Mission & Responsibilities

→Scale the Intelligence Core. Oversee the advancement of the Cognitive Collaboration Graph (CCG) and its federated network architecture.
→Defend Privacy-by-Physics. Ensure our Sovereign Edge Node (SEN) and its memory-mapped volatile purge buffers remain architecturally verifiable and works council-ready.
→Govern Agentic Workforces. Architect the infrastructure to discover, monitor, and enforce policy on shadow AI and autonomous agent systems running at the enterprise device boundary.
→Lead with Technical Rigour. Directly manage and mentor senior engineers specialising in production-grade Rust systems, graph databases, and applied ML.

What You Bring

✓Enterprise Tech Pedigree. Deep, practical experience building and scaling massive multi-agent orchestration or cloud architectures within highly complex corporate environments (EMEA footprint is a plus).
✓Deep Graph & Crypto Literacy. Strong foundational knowledge in graph theory / network analysis (Neo4j / DGraph) and cryptographic primitives (SHA-256 whitecoding).
✓Compliance Fluency. Comfort navigating strict European data governance frameworks, including GDPR Art. 25/28 and DACH works council co-determination standards.
✓Hands-on Mentality. You still love code. You can credibly lead an architect-driven team because you know what "careful work" looks like in production.
Multi-agent orchestration Graph databases (Neo4j / DGraph) Rust (production) GDPR Art. 25/28 DACH works council Applied ML

Compensation Package: By Austrian law, we are required to state the minimum collective agreement salary for this position, which is € 5,301 gross per month (IT-KV, level LT). However, as a Co-Founder, your actual compensation will be custom-tailored. It consists of a substantial direct equity stake in the FlexKAP combined with a salary component, structurally designed to match your market value and our startup stage. We are explicitly willing to overpay the collective minimum through this combined equity and salary package.

Your Role or not — you can always get in touch with us

Send a "Speculative Application"

If you are doing genuinely interesting work in privacy-preserving ML, graph computation, or regulated enterprise transformation, we want to hear from you regardless of whether a specific role is listed.

Get in touch →