Chief Technology Officer
Core
Drive execution for product and engineering teams by making AI the core of everything built, owning full technical architecture and agentic engineering best practices.
Role type
CTO (AI-first, hands-on architect)
Builds
Toptal's full technical architecture, AI primitives, and agentic workflows for matching, vetting, onboarding, and delivery.
Domain
Global professional services / AI engineering / Agentic systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
AI strategy, agentic engineering, foundation model fine-tuning, harness design, orchestration, retrieval, context engineering, tool/MCP integration, guardrails, evaluation, cost control, workforce planning, technical architecture, system design, hiring leadership
Preferred skills
Advanced degree in CS/Engineering, prior CTO/VP Engineering experience at meaningful scale
Technologies
Foundation models, agentic architectures, retrieval systems, MCP, evaluation frameworks
Responsibilities
Own AI technology strategy and architecture; deploy agentic engineering at scale; make AI quality measurable via evals and regression suites; rebuild platform operations using AI-assisted development; decide team composition and resourcing; own end-to-end architecture, throughput, and reliability; establish direct working rhythm with CEO.
Seniority
Executive, hands-on IC leader