Cone Health Ventures · 5 hours ago
Chief Technology Officer - Nclusive Scan
Triad Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$180K/yr - $240K/yrCone Health Ventures is involved in developing an AI accessibility platform called Nclusive Scan. As the Founding CTO, you will be responsible for the end-to-end technical vision and execution of the platform, including building the initial team and establishing engineering standards.
Investment Management
Responsibilities
Own architecture and execution end-to-end (prototype → MVP → enterprise-ready)
Build and scale our NVIDIA-based AI stack, including (as applicable)
NVIDIA NeMo (LLM/NLP workflows, fine-tuning, evaluation)
NVIDIA Riva (ASR/TTS, timestamps, streaming considerations)
NVIDIA Omniverse (avatar/scene pipeline and rendering workflow)
NVIDIA Audio2Face (facial animation / lip-sync)
GPU inference optimization and deployment best practices (performance, latency, cost)
Design the platform as a secure, multi-tenant system:
AuthN/AuthZ, auditing/logging, data governance, and privacy-by-default practices
Observability (metrics, traces), reliability targets, and incident response patterns
Establish the engineering operating system:
CI/CD, testing strategy, release process, model evaluation gates, documentation
Make key build-vs-buy decisions and manage critical vendors/partners
Recruit and lead the early engineering team (employees + contractors), with a plan to scale post-seed
Support go-to-market and fundraising:
Join customer calls, translate needs into roadmap, and produce clear technical narratives for investors and diligence
Qualification
Required
Proven experience shipping production software as a technical lead (startup and/or enterprise), ideally in a '0→1' environment
Strong platform engineering fundamentals: APIs, pipelines/queues, data storage, security, observability, and cloud infrastructure
Hands-on experience deploying AI systems in production (evaluation, guardrails, cost/latency tradeoffs)
Meaningful experience with NVIDIA's AI stack (at least two of the following, with preference for more): NeMo, Riva, Omniverse, Audio2Face
GPU inference optimization, model serving, and deployment practices
Comfort operating in ambiguity with high ownership and speed
Preferred
Experience with avatar/3D pipelines, animation blending, video rendering, or real-time media systems
Accessibility domain experience (captions, ASL/linguistics, assistive technology, WCAG-adjacent workflows)
Experience navigating enterprise security reviews and compliance requirements
Benefits
Health
PTO
Standard startup benefits package
Company
Cone Health Ventures
Cone Health is a not-for-profit network of healthcare providers serving people.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase