Chief Technology Officer

Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations (“CI”) is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 220+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech. Come join VULQAN!!

At Vulqan, we believe that companies need a logical intelligence layer that sits above their disparate systems and makes the data usable for analytics and AI. Data orchestration tools have long promised this logic but never delivered. Our AI-powered agentic platform transforms siloed data into coherent logical data models, one use case at a time. We’re on a mission to evangelize a data platform that addresses what is arguably the oldest unsolved problem in enterprise technology—logical unification of fragmented enterprise data.

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) will be responsible for defining and executing Vulqan’s overall technology strategy, ensuring the platform’s architecture, AI capabilities, and engineering execution support the company’s product vision and long-term scalability. This role combines deep technical leadership with hands-on engagement in a highly differentiated, early-stage enterprise AI company.

This role is situated in an early-stage, high-growth environment. Success requires comfort operating with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and limited formal process, while maintaining strong technical judgment, ownership, and execution discipline.

• Own Vulqan’s end-to-end technology strategy, architecture, and engineering execution.
• Partner closely with the founders to translate Vulqan’s core technical differentiation—including logical data modeling, semantic abstraction, and AI-driven inference—into a robust, scalable enterprise platform.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across AI/ML, data platforms, and system architecture, particularly in the company’s early stages.
• Lead and mentor the engineering and applied AI teams, setting high standards for design, code quality, reliability, and security.
• Guide architectural decisions around data infrastructure, model integration, evaluation frameworks, and production AI systems.
• Balance rapid experimentation with enterprise-grade robustness, scalability, and compliance.
• Collaborate with Product and Sales leadership to support customer engagements, technical due diligence, and partner relationships.
• Establish lightweight engineering processes, metrics, and hiring standards appropriate to Vulqan’s stage of growth.

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership, including senior technical roles in Silicon Valley or comparable AI-driven technology ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML systems, data platforms, or applied intelligence, with experience bringing complex AI capabilities into production.
• Proven ability to design and scale complex, distributed systems in enterprise environments.
• Prior experience in early-stage or high-growth companies, with demonstrated comfort building from first principles.
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage credibly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including customers and investors.
• Experience in adjacent domains such as data infrastructure, analytics platforms, or enterprise AI software may be considered equivalent to direct domain experience.

Vulqan is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Vulqan is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.