Chief Technology Officer Security Clearance

Position: Chief Technology Officer with Security Clearance
Join Our Innovative Team at Mile 2! Are you into solving tough problems and building cool tech? Do you thrive in a team where your ideas are heard and your creativity is encouraged? If you're nodding along, Mile 2 might be the place for you. We're all about creating advanced solutions that really make a difference for our government partners.

Our team uses the latest technologies to make a tangible impact, creating seamless integrations between human expertise and machine capabilities to tackle complex challenges. Our core values guide everything we do:
Supported Autonomy:
We trust you to take initiative and make decisions, but we've always got your back. Humble Expertise:
We respect everyone's knowledge and skills, creating an environment where we can all learn and get better together. Success is a Team Effort:
We believe that we can only achieve great things when we work as a team. Tangible Results:
We're motivated by the desire to create real, measurable impacts through our work. When you join us, you'll work on meaningful projects that challenge you and help you grow. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment, competitive benefits, and plenty of opportunities to advance your career. If you're ready to level up your career and be part of something special, check out our current openings and apply today.

About Mile 2 Mile 2 is a small, mission-driven government contractor dedicated to advancing the state of the art in human-machine teaming for the U.S. Department of War. We build custom software that fuses rigorous user-centered design with cutting-edge engineering - creating systems where humans and intelligent machines collaborate more effectively, intelligently, and safely. Our work directly supports warfighters and defense analysts at the DoW agencies.

We are small by design: lean, deeply technical, and oriented toward impact over headcount. The person who joins as our CTO will help shape not just our technology roadmap, but the capability of the entire organization.

Position Overview The Chief Technology Officer is a senior leadership role responsible for Mile 2's technical vision, engineering execution, and innovation strategy. You will serve as the company's senior-most technologist, reporting directly to the CEO, and will be deeply engaged both in high-level strategy and hands-on technical decisions. You will set the standards for a talented technical team to deliver solutions that operate at the intersection of AI, human factors, and mission-critical software.

You will be expected to represent Mile 2's technical capabilities to government customers, partners, and in proposal efforts. As a member of the executive team, the CTO will align technical strategy with company growth objectives, drive enterprise technical maturity, support scalable delivery models, guide productization and reusable capability development, and partner with executive leadership on long-term business strategy. The ideal candidate is technically exceptional, strategically minded, operationally grounded, growth-aware, mission-focused, and execution-oriented - capable of engaging effectively with engineers, operators, executives, acquisition officials, proposal teams, and mission customers.

Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Vision
* Define and own Mile 2's technology strategy, roadmap, and architecture standards across all programs and internal initiatives.

* Champion human-machine teaming principles throughout the software development lifecycle - ensuring technology decisions are grounded in how real users think, decide, and act.

* Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging technologies including AI/ML, large language models, computer vision, and autonomous systems in the context of DoW use cases.

* Maintain sufficient technical depth and credibility to review architectures, guide technical tradeoffs, mentor engineering leadership, and engage deeply in solution strategy when required.

* Lead the strategic technical direction for integrated systems, specifically overseeing the convergence of custom software with hardware and embedded electronics for mission-critical environments.

* Provide executive oversight for the full product development lifecycle of both cloud-native applications and edge-computing devices.

* Establish and govern enterprise architecture standards, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reuse across all programs and product lines.

* Define and steward reusable technical frameworks, shared capabilities, and a productization strategy that evolves one-off program work into sustainable mission systems.

* Align the capability roadmap with corporate growth priorities and prioritize technical investments (IRAD/R&D, infrastructure, tooling) against business outcomes.

Engineering Excellence
* Establish and enforce engineering best practices: code quality, Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, testing frameworks, and documentation standards appropriate for classified and unclassified environments.

* Oversee technical…