CTO & Co-Founder Stealth Venture (AI Yard Operations)

Modern logistics and manufacturing rely on the smooth flow of goods trucks assets and information yet the yard remains one of the last major blind spots in the supply chain. Despite its strategic importance processes are still largely manual reactive and difficult to optimize.

We are building an AI-native platform that brings real-time intelligence transparency and automation to yard operations. By combining computer vision sensor data and machine learning we aim to create a unified system that understands what is happening on the yard at any moment and supports and automates key operational decisions.

Our mission is to transform yards from low-visibility operational bottlenecks into predictable data-driven and highly efficient environments.

As a co-founder you will play a central role in defining the technology shaping the product and creating a new category in logistics AI.

As CTO & Co-Founder you will build the technology strategy from 0 to 1 and lead the development of our computer-vision-driven yard automation platform. You will work directly with the CEO/founder to validate customer pain points design the technical architecture and build a world-class engineering organization.

This is a hands-on entrepreneurial high-ownership role for someone who wants to build deep-tech infrastructure for one of the largest industries in the world.

Key responsibilities

Technology & Product Architecture

• Design the core system architecture for a real-time yard intelligence platform (CV IoT data pipelines backend services integrations).

• Evaluate and implement computer vision pipelines: object detection tracking ID association anomaly detection and spatial reasoning.

• Build reliable scalable data infrastructure (event streams geospatial models digital twin layers).

AI/ML & Engineering Execution

• Develop and iterate models for tracking recognition mapping and behavior prediction.

• Set engineering best practices across CI/CD testing reliability security and data protection (GDPR).

• Build early prototypes that can operate in messy real-world industrial environments.

Founding Team Leadership

• Hire and lead a cross-disciplinary engineering team (CV backend platform MLOps).

• Establish a culture of excellence autonomy pragmatism and speed.

• Partner with the CEO in customer discovery PoCs and design partner engagements.

Operational & Strategic Ownership

• Drive the technical roadmap and translate customer workflows into product capabilities.

• Ensure system robustness and safety for mission-critical operations (yards never sleep).

• Communicate clearly with customers partners investors and internal stakeholders.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of AI real-world systems and operational automation.

You are a highly motivated entrepreneurial engineering leader with a strong background in AI/ML computer vision and building scalable software systems. You love solving real-world problems and are excited about building an industry-defining deep-tech product from scratch.

Must-haves

• MSc/PhD in Computer Science Machine Learning Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• Strong expertise in computer vision MLOps and model deployment.

• Experience designing and owning complex distributed systems and backend architectures.

• 3 years of experience in leading engineering teams or tech strategy (startup or high-growth preferred).

• Hands-on ability to build prototypes quickly and evolve them into production systems.

• Strong understanding of data infrastructures integrations APIs and real-time pipelines.

• Excellent communication skills and eagerness to co-own product obsess over customer processes and business outcomes.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: you enjoy ambiguity move fast and bias for action.
  

Strong pluses

• Experience with geospatial systems tracking algorithms or sensor fusion.

• Experience in logistics manufacturing robotics mobility or industrial automation.

• Strong product instincts and ability to translate operational pain points into technical designs.

• Experience with on-prem/edge deployments or privacy-sensitive environments.

• Prior founding or early-stage startup experience.

If you are passionate about using AI to transform physical operations at scale this role is for you.

• A trueco-founder rolewith equity and the opportunity to shape the technological foundation of a category-defining company.

• Backing fromMerantix Europes leading AI venture ecosystem including access to:

  • 60 AI engineers

  • Research and MLOps infrastructure

  • Talent pipeline and hiring support

  • A strong network of enterprise partners and investors

• A front-row seat in building the operating system for future logistics globally.

• An office at theMerantix AI Campus Europes biggest AI hub.

• A culture of ownership transparency speed and continuous learning.

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model.

Why join now

We are at the very beginning of a transformation in logistics automation. Vision systems spatial AI and operational orchestration open a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine how yards run.

Joining now means:

• You shape the architecture culture and product from day 0.

• You work directly with design partners across logistics and manufacturing.

• You build the first version of a platform that will scale to hundreds of sites.

• You leave your mark on an industry with enormous technical depth and impact.