# Chief Technology Officer - US-Based at TopTal

- Company: TopTal
- What the company does: Toptal enables businesses to hire the world’s top talent. Since 2010, 35,000+ clients have trusted Toptal for talent, teams, and end-to-end solutions. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.toptal.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/toptal/42bc9758-5d92-4ec6-84c1-a4b6c02848fe
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/toptal-chief-technology-officer-us-based/

## About the role

The following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills. One precondition runs through all of it: you conceive the strategy. You will form your own view of where engineering and AI should go, build the case, and bring the CEO a strategy to react to, not a request for direction.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required, and an advanced degree is strongly preferred
- 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership, including significant time as a CTO or VP of Engineering, or as a direct report to one at meaningful scale
- Agentic systems deployed at scale against real business processes, with measured outcomes on cost, cycle time, quality, or revenue, and a record of retiring what did not work
- Rigor about evaluation. You can explain precisely how you knew a model, prompt, or agent change was an improvement, and you can show the evidence
- Command of the economics underneath it: model routing, hosted versus self-hosted, inference capacity, latency and cost budgets, and staying portable across providers
- Further ahead on AI than the executives around you, able to teach it, and proven at moving an organization to adopt something it was not asking for

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