Chief Technology Officer

CTO / Founding Engineer – Industrial Infrastructure Software

Location:

San Francisco

Ground Control is building software for complex, real-world infrastructure problems – factory selection, facility buildouts, and ongoing operations for advanced manufacturing companies.

We spent our first year embedded in paid pilot projects with aerospace, nuclear, robotics, and energy startups, proving service-market fit and deeply understanding operational pain points. We recently closed a $2M pre-seed and are now translating those workflows into a scalable, AI-enabled platform.

We’re looking for a hands‑on CTO / Founding Engineer to own system architecture, ship product, and build the early engineering team.

• Senior engineer or technical lead with strong product instincts.
• Experience building 0‑1 B2B SaaS.
• Industrial software, manufacturing, proptech, or construction tech familiarity preferred.
• Experience building AI‑enabled or automation‑heavy workflows.
• Interest in incorporating graphics and data to support decision making and scope definition.
• Comfortable leading early‑stage product development, making tradeoffs, and building with a lean team.
• U.S.
  
  -based (work authorization required given customer profile).
• Affinity for concrete – motivated by systems that impact the physical world.

• Our users are building aerospace, nuclear, robotics, and energy systems – you will work alongside teams advancing critical technologies.
• Facilities are often critical path to hardware innovation. We exist to remove that bottleneck.
• High ownership, meaningful equity, and ability to shape team culture.
• Opportunity to build agentic software for the physical world.