Chief Technology Officer – Co-Founder, Digital Health, Computer Vision, Ambient AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate directly with the founding CEO to develop the StealthCo ambient AI platform from inception.

• Implement computer vision detection and activity recognition for commercially available cameras in genuine clinical settings.

• Begin with existing models and create a proprietary dataset that evolves over time.

• Oversee the data pipeline comprehensively.

• Establish the annotation operation along with quality standards.

• Identify what can be reliably detected based on insights from the clinical domain.

• Design technology distribution across both cloud and on-premise environments.

• Leverage experience in enterprise IT security evaluations.

• Manage technical architecture and delineate boundaries between components.

• Engage in a combination of hands-on work, AI agents, and targeted contractors while keeping full-time headcount minimal until revenue and milestones justify expansion.

• Assist in recruiting and assessing future engineering candidates.

• Attend design-partner clinical and IT meetings, Seed investor pitches, and future health-system customer discussions.

• Facilitate substantial technical dialogues with hospital IT leaders and clinical informatics teams.

• Achieve a working pilot and a viable product within the first year.

⛳️ Requirements

• Hands-on experience in computer vision; personally developed model code.

• Proficiency with current models for activity recognition, multi-person tracking, and pose estimation in real-world video environments.

• Background in fixed-camera video under challenging, real-world conditions, including multi-person tracking, occlusion management, activity/action recognition, and human pose estimation.

• Experience in delivering a product to production with real customers, taking it from concept to production with a small team.

• Preference for candidates with a founder or early employee background.

• Experience in deploying edge or on-premise inference where data cannot leave the premises or where strict data residency applies.

• Capability in model adaptation and fine-tuning using existing models rather than relying on from-scratch training.

• Experience in a startup or early-stage environment.

• Proven ability to work with a small team, make decisions with limited information, and ship iteratively.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity.

• At least 10 years of relevant technical experience.

• Demonstrated responsibility in people management.

• Previous work involving body-worn camera platforms, workplace safety video AI, retail computer vision, or surgical video AI is a strong advantage.

• Experience in deploying computer vision at an operational scale is a significant plus.

• Familiarity with chain of custody, data retention, or privacy review is a strong differentiator.

• Exposure to healthcare or clinical technology is beneficial, including HIPAA compliance, hospital IT procurement, or clinical workflow integration.

• A prior founding exit is a notable advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with an equity plan.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance.

• Flexible work location within the United States.

• A collaborative and entrepreneurial environment supported by a proven venture studio playbook.

• A well-validated concept and business model hypothesis developed by our team, including verbal commitments for pilot projects.

• Pre-seed funding secured by the 1842 Fund.

• Access to the venture studio and platform services, featuring world-class expertise across all necessary disciplines to build a market-leading company.

• Equal opportunity employer.