About the role
Build the technical foundation for a personal agent people can depend on. Set the architecture, technical investment priorities, and standards that allow One Agent to expand across supported environments without losing user control.
What you will own
- Own the technology strategy across agent runtime, identity, consent, data access, integration interfaces, model selection, and deployment.
- Make explicit build, buy, and partner decisions. Set service reliability, security, latency, and cost requirements with product and engineering delivery leaders.
- Develop technical leaders and turn the research agenda into a practical capability roadmap. Cover Chief Engineer responsibilities until that seat is filled.
What we need to see
- Evidence of designing and shipping complex software, making good technical tradeoffs, and developing senior engineers. AI and distributed systems depth must be demonstrated through real work.
Your first 90 days
- 30 days: map the existing system, technical talent, dependencies, and critical risks; publish the architecture and decision backlog.
- 60 days: approve the target architecture and a resourced technical roadmap; resolve the highest-impact platform bottleneck.
- 90 days: demonstrate a reliable end-to-end workflow and review its quality, permissions, latency, cost, and operational ownership.
Success measures
Task completion quality; severe incidents; cost per successful task; service latency; technical decisions implemented; avoidable rework.
Interview work sample
Walk through a system you personally shaped. Then design One Agent’s permissioned execution model, including a failed action, an expired credential, and a user revoking access.
Scope
The CTO owns technical direction. The execution officer owns engineering staffing, delivery commitments, and the release process.
Where and how we work
This role is based at the Kirkland Garage, 1021 5th St W, Kirkland, WA 98033. We work in the office together five days a week. Remote work is available only by exception, arranged individually around specific circumstances.
Pay
The proposed US annual base salary range is $400,000 - $650,000. The role is also eligible for target variable compensation of 30% of base, an initial equity award and our benefits program, subject to the applicable plans. The final offer reflects role scope and demonstrated experience. Equity value and variable pay are not guaranteed.