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Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

Co-found and lead the technology organization at Scan Ninja Inc, setting the engineering and security vision for our AI-driven vulnerability management, compliance automation, and post-quantum readiness platform.

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)
Experience: Executive
Team: Executive
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Role Overview

As CTO and Co-Founder, you will define the long-term technology strategy for Scan Ninja Inc and lead the engineering, AI, and infrastructure teams that bring it to life. This is a security role as much as an engineering one. You will own how we detect, prioritize, and prove the closure of risk for customers in defense, critical infrastructure, and other regulated industries, including the cryptographic modernization work that carries them through the post-quantum transition. You will partner directly with the founders on product direction, architecture, hiring, and go-to-market alignment, while staying close to the code and to customers. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, TX with flexibility for remote work, and is ideal for an experienced technology leader who wants to shape a category-defining cybersecurity company from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall technology vision, architecture, and multi-year engineering roadmap
  • Lead software, platform, AI, and infrastructure teams across hiring, performance, and delivery
  • Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient systems for vulnerability management and compliance automation
  • Own the cryptographic modernization and post-quantum readiness roadmap, from discovery and cryptographic bill of materials through risk scoring and customer migration planning
  • Partner with co-founders on product strategy, fundraising, board updates, and customer engagement
  • Establish engineering standards, security practices, and operational excellence across the company
  • Evolve IT and platform strategy to support enterprise customers and regulated industries
  • Represent Scan Ninja externally with customers, partners, investors, analysts, and the broader security community

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Demonstrated expertise in software development, including programming, debugging, and shipping scalable production systems
  • Experience leading product development initiatives end to end, from discovery to launch and iteration
  • Strong skills in IT strategy and enterprise architecture for security or data-intensive products
  • Applied cryptography judgment, meaning you can review a cryptographic design, reason about protocol and algorithm choices, and separate a real quantum risk from vendor noise
  • Track record of project and program management across multiple concurrent technical initiatives
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills with both technical and business stakeholders

Nice-to-Have

  • Direct experience with compliance frameworks such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or FedRAMP
  • Grounding in quantum computing fundamentals and the harvest now, decrypt later threat model, enough to lead a credible technical conversation with a defense or critical infrastructure customer
  • Prior experience as a founder, co-founder, or founding engineer at a venture-backed startup
  • Background applying AI/ML or LLMs to cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or compliance use cases
  • Experience operating in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, or critical infrastructure