Founding Chief Technology Officer
For the engineer who sees where open source models are going and wants to aim them at the hardest problem there is: how people change.
New York City. We are flexible for the right person.
The conviction we are hiring for
This role begins with a point of view, not a stack. Here is ours.
Open source models are not the cheap alternative. They are the future of serious AI companies. Weights you can run, tune, and own are how a company builds intelligence that belongs to it, instead of renting intelligence that belongs to someone else. People will not hand their most honest three minutes a night to a black box in someone else's cloud, and enterprises are learning the same lesson at scale: your intelligence is your asset, and you protect it like one. The companies that matter over the next decade will own their brains. We don't want to wake up one day to "Claude's mental health" created by our data.
If you read that and felt something click, keep reading.
What this is not
This is not a wrapper. If your instinct is to put a thin interface on someone else's API and call it a product, this is the wrong room. We use frontier tools where they serve us, but the value of Oghere lives in what we own: the methodology, the signal extraction, the pattern memory, and eventually the models themselves. You would be here to build a moat, not a skin.
What you will build
The Oghere brain. A reflection engine that turns spoken nightly reflections into structured signals about identity, habit, and resistance. A pattern memory that compounds over months and years, so the system knows a person better in year two than any journal ever could. A privacy architecture worthy of the most honest data people will ever produce, with a real roadmap toward private and on-device inference.
And then the frontier: health data. Sleep, movement, heart rate, recovery, paired with what a person says about their day. Reflection tells us what someone believes about themselves. The body tells us what it costs them. Put those together and you get something that does not exist yet: a true understanding of how motivation works in a specific human life, and what actually keeps a person encouraged to chase what they could be. That is the product we are really building, and you would be its architect.
Who you are
You are magnetic. People build better around you because your conviction is contagious and your standards are visible. You love technology the way some people love music: you follow it, you play with it, you have opinions about it that you can defend at dinner. You have shipped real systems, you have strong instincts about open models and applied ML, and you get restless when a company treats technology as a cost center instead of the whole point.
You also care about the human problem underneath. You believe technology should help people become who they are trying to be, and you want your best years to compound into something that outlasts a product cycle.
Who you will work with
You will work directly with the CEO. He is a lover of technology who has spent his career inside big tech and startups, watching different products change how work scales, and a storyteller who built Oghere from a single idea: most people do not have a discipline problem, they have an identity problem. He handles the story, the community, and the demand. You handle the machine. Two people, full ownership of their halves, one shared conviction.
Compensation
Compensation is a conversation, not a bullet point. We will be direct with you about the stage and the plan, and we expect the same directness back. Start with the Constitution. It is how this house shares what it earns.