CTO

The Role

We're looking for a CTO to join as a core member of the founding team and own the technical vision, architecture, and execution of our world-model stack. You'll work directly alongside our founders — spanning physics-priors neural networks, SE(3)-equivariant RL, sim-to-real robotics, and large-scale ML systems — to turn a strong research thesis into a fleet-scale product. This is a hire we expect to sit at the center of fundraising, hiring, and technical strategy from day one.

What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture for a physics-grounded world model trained via self-play RL, spanning simulation, sim-to-real transfer, and real-world rollout recalibration
• Build and lead a world-class research and engineering team, starting with our Founding Research Scientist (World Models & Self-Play) and Sim-to-Real Research Engineer hires
• Make and defend architecture-level bets: simulation stack (Isaac Sim/Lab, MuJoCo), training infrastructure, cross-embodiment generalization, and evaluation methodology
• Represent OMN4I's technical thesis to investors, technical advisors, and the research community — with the rigor to withstand expert scrutiny
• Partner with the CEO on fundraising, competitive positioning, and public technical content (blog posts, benchmark releases)
• Set technical culture and hiring bar as the team scales post-seed

What We're Looking For

• Deep expertise in physics-grounded world models, model-based RL, or self-play systems — published research, applied production experience, or both
• Track record leading technical teams, not just contributing individually — you've hired, mentored, and made resourcing calls under real constraints
• Entrepreneurial instinct: comfortable with ambiguity, pre-product-market-fit decision-making, and moving faster than a research lab timeline
• Fluency in the current physical AI landscape — imitation learning, VLA approaches, and where self-play and physics priors offer genuine differentiation, not just narrative
• Experience with sim-to-real transfer and/or robotics deployment is a strong plus
• Comfortable operating in a small, high-trust founding team where technical calls are made fast and owned fully