If you are looking for a job, this is not for you

CTO Founding role (Salary + Equity)

About Simora

Simora.ai is the contextual layer for AI video. AI models can generate a video, but they don’t understand a brand, its audience, the language people actually speak or what works in their market. Simora adds that context, for enterprises, we go further. We build custom studios and AI workflows around how their teams actually create content, so large organisations can produce videos at scale in their own format, brand and process. Over 1000+ brands, agencies and enterprises use Simora today.

Simora’s next stage is building our own models. You will lead how we train and fine-tune open-source video, voice and image models on our own data, and how we run them in production at a cost that works.

If you are looking for a job, this is not for you. This is for people who are looking to start their own startup, or who want to mine the gold rush of AI with the right ideas and execution.

The role

We are looking for a CTO to join as a founding member and own all of Simora’s technology. You will set the technical direction, build and lead the engineering team, and make the calls on architecture, infrastructure, AI models and cost. You will work closely with the founders on what we build next.

This is a building role, not a supervising one. You will write code every day, alongside the team you lead.

You are the right person if you

- Have built a complete product end to end, from first architecture to paying users at scale, and stayed accountable for it in production
- Live in the code. Even as CTO, you write, review and ship code yourself
- Are the person everyone turns to when things go wrong. When a system breaks,



you figure out what happened and fix it, fast
- Have trained or fine-tuned open-source AI models yourself, from preparing the data to evaluating results and running the model in a real product
- Are hands-on with the AI/ML stack: PyTorch, Hugging Face, diffusion and generative models, fine-tuning methods like LoRA, and GPU training and inference infrastructure
- Can judge when to train our own model, when to fine-tune an open one and when to simply use an API, and what each will cost
- Are best at figuring things out, even in parts of the system or problems you have never seen before
- Have led engineers, hired well and set the standard for how a team builds
- Understand AI models and media pipelines well enough to decide what to build, what to buy and what it will cost
- Think in terms of business outcomes, not just technology: speed, reliability and cost per user matter equally to you
- Plan clearly, move fast and are comfortable with the uncertainty of an early-stage company
- Know your systems better than anyone else. Use any AI tool you like, but you understand everything that goes to production

This role is not for you if

- You are looking for a job. This is for people who want to start their own startup, or who want to mine the gold rush of AI




- You have only used AI through APIs and have never trained or fine-tuned a model yourself
- You see the CTO role as managing and reviewing, not coding
- You have only managed teams and no longer build things yourself
- You have never owned a product’s technology end to end
- You need a large team and established processes to be effective

What you get

- Co-founder level equity
- Salary
- Full ownership of Simora’s technology and a real say in the direction of the company
- Direct partnership with the founders as one of them

How we will move ahead:

This is not a usual hiring process. We are looking for someone to build Simora with us, so we want to get to know each other properly before either of us commits.

1. We meet. Online or in person, whichever works for you. We will show you what we are building, where we are taking it and the vision behind it. You will see the product, the numbers and the problems as they are.

2. We see if the vibe matches. If you like what you see and we feel the same about you, we move to the next step. If not, we part ways with respect, no hard feelings on either side.

3. We work together for three months. You join us full time at our office in Bengaluru, on a fixed salary. This is not a part time or side arrangement. It is the best way for both of us to see how we think, build and handle hard days together.

4. We offer co-founder level equity. If things go well in these three months and we know we are right for each other, we will offer you the equity structure right away, along with your salary.

We would rather take three months to build the right partnership than rush into one that doesn’t last.

📌 Chief Technology Officer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Simora.ai
📍 Bengaluru