Chief Technology Officer (CTO) (gn) @ DefenceTech Venture, Belgium

We're building the future of autonomous maritime systems, technology that's already deployed and operating in some of the world's most demanding environments. Our AI-powered platform works across everything from commercial vessels to defense applications, combining advanced perception, embedded intelligence, and robust hardware into solutions that actually ship.

We're a European deep tech company that's moved beyond the prototype phase. We've proven that our technology works in the real world, secured early customers, and now we're scaling fast. Think dozens of deployments this year, hundreds next year, and a technical foundation that's attracted backing from top-tier investors.

The challenge? We're at the inflection point where "make it work" becomes "make it scale", and we need someone exceptional to lead that transformation.

As our CTO, you'll own the technical vision for a company solving genuinely hard problems at the intersection of AI, robotics, and mission-critical systems. This isn't about incremental improvements to existing products, it's about architecting platforms that need to work flawlessly in environments where failure isn't an option.

You'll be leading a sharp technical team, working directly with founders, and making decisions that directly impact whether we become the dominant player in maritime autonomy or just another promising startup.

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In your first year, you'll transform how we build and deploy technology:

• You'll architect a platform that scales elegantly, enabling us to serve diverse customer needs without the need to customize for each use case

• You'll establish deployment and testing processes that let us ship confidently and frequently across remote autonomous systems

• You'll grow and level up the team, establishing technical culture and engineering practices that scale beyond you

• You'll work with commercial teams to define our next-generation product offering

• You'll position MAHI as a technical leader in the maritime autonomy space

• You're most comfortable in pure research environments or where shipping production systems isn't the primary goal

• You need massive resources and established market dominance to thrive

• You prefer to delegate rather than roll up your sleeves when needed

If you're energized by the idea of scaling autonomous systems that actually work in the real world, and leading the technical team that makes it happen, let's talk.