Field Chief Technology Officer; Field CTO

Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO)

Location: Silverthorne, CO (Hybrid work)

Pay: $190,000 - $230,000 per year (Full-time)

Pay: $190,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Type: Full-time

• Senior Federal Technical Leadership
  • Act as the authoritative technical voice for Kamiwaza Federal with DoD and IC customers.
  • Serve as a trusted technical and mission advisor to senior government leaders (GO/FO, SES), program executives, and operational stakeholders.
  • Lead classified and unclassified executive briefings, architecture reviews, and mission workshops; facilitate technical decision‑making.
  • Own technical escalation for complex customer situations, pilots, and competitive bake‑offs.
• AI & Platform Authority
  • Demonstrate mastery of:
    • AI/ML systems including LLMs, SLMs, VLMs, agentic frameworks, and evaluation/guardrails.
    • AI orchestration and inference at scale across cloud, core, and edge.
    • Distributed data platforms, streaming/event‑driven architectures, and real‑time situational awareness systems.
  • Retrieval and data orchestration patterns for mission data (RAG, entity resolution, poly structured data).
  • Model evaluation, governance, and trustworthy AI in operational settings.
  • Secure deployments in classified, air‑gapped, denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments.
  • Guide customers on secure AI adoption with full data containment and mission‑based access control.
  • Define federal reference architectures, deployment patterns, and “how‑to” guidance that accelerates pilots production.
• DoD & IC Go‑To‑Market Enablement
  • Partner with Sales, Capture, and BD leadership to:
    • Shape technical win strategies and differentiated solution narratives.
    • Qualify opportunities and influence bid/no‑bid decisions.
    • Support OTAs, rapid prototypes, pilots, and transition‑to‑production pathways.
  • Serve as the technical closer in high‑value, technically complex pursuits.
  • Build repeatable GTM assets: reference architectures, demo flows, competitive positioning, and enablement for account teams and partners.
• Bridge Engineering and Mission Reality
  • Translate operational mission needs into clear, actionable product and engineering priorities.
  • Provide continuous feedback to platform, security, and infrastructure teams based on real‑world government constraints.
  • Ensure internal teams understand classification, deployment, and sustainment realities.
  • Help drive internal alignment on packaging, deployment automation, documentation, and supportability for federal environments.
• Ecosystem & Partner Leadership
  • Engage and align with systems integrators, defense primes, hyperscalers, and hardware/edge vendors (compute, GPU, ruggedized platforms).
  • Drive joint reference architectures, integrated demos, and co‑sell motions that extend Kamiwaza’s reach into programs of record.
  • Enable partner technical teams with repeatable architectures, demos, and deployment guidance that reduce delivery risk.
  • Represent Kamiwaza Federal at classified program reviews, defense industry forums, technical advisory venues, and partner events.
• Thought Leadership & Evangelism
  • Serve as a visible technical spokesperson for Kamiwaza Federal through conference speaking, executive round tables, webinars, and published technical content.
  • Translate complex AI and data topics into mission‑relevant narratives that build trust, urgency, and adoption.
  • Build and nurture practitioner communities (working groups, user groups, partner enablement sessions) that expand technical influence.
• First 180 Days - Mandate for Success
  • Days 0–60:
    Foundation & Credibility
    • Achieve deep mastery of the Kamiwaza platform, roadmap, differentiators, and federal deployment patterns.
    • Establish technical credibility with priority DoD/IC customers and key integrator partners.
    • Audit active pipeline opportunities; assess technical win probability and document top risks/gaps with mitigation actions.
    • Build strong working relationships and operating cadence with Sales, Capture, Engineering, Product, and Marketing/Communications.
  • Days 61–120:
    Influence & Differentiation
    • Define and standardize Kamiwaza’s federal technical narrative, reference architectures, and demo storylines.
    • Actively shape 3–5…