Raydar
Chief Technology Officer
$120K–$500K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 4 to 10 years.
About the job
Leads machine learning engineering and data-platform development, initially building pipelines and models hands-on and later hiring and leading an engineering team.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and develop ML systems, data pipelines, and backend infrastructure for research and science work.
- Structure unstructured lab data, evaluate measurable model improvements, and run discovery pipelines to identify commercially relevant results.
- Hire, onboard, and lead engineers while continuing to contribute directly.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building, training, and deploying machine learning models in materials science.
- Ability to take a model from raw data through to validated, measurable improvement independently.
- Strong data infrastructure and pipeline engineering skills; fluency with modern frontier models.
- Leadership experience hiring and guiding engineers while remaining hands-on.
Nice to have
- Professional network in the field for candidate sourcing.
- Commercial creativity and curiosity beyond the technical domain.
Pay
USD 120,000 to 500,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Build, train, and deploy materials-science machine learning models; use modern frontier models and evaluate measurable performance gains from additional data.
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