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FIELD CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (FIELD CTO) Location: Remote with significant customer-site travel (including secure locations) ROLE OVERVIEW Kamiwaza AI is seeking a Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO) to serve as the senior-most customer-facing technical executive supporting U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. This role is designed for a seasoned technologist with deep, credible government experience who can operate fluently across classified mission environments, executive customer engagements, and high-stakes competitive pursuits. The Field CTO blends executive technical advisory, technical go-to-market leadership, and field-to-product strategy. You will shape how Kamiwaza’s AI orchestration, distributed data, and edge-capable platform is understood, adopted, and operationalized for national security missions—and you will ensure what we build aligns with real mission constraints. This is not a sales engineer or solutions architect role. It is a field-facing technical executive role comparable to senior Field CTO, Deputy CTO, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer positions at elite defense-focused technology companies. Core Mission Own the technical narrative, mission alignment, and external technical credibility for Kamiwaza Federal—ensuring the platform is positioned as mission-ready, secure, and operationally decisive from strategic headquarters to the tactical edge. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Senior Federal Technical Leadership - Act as the authoritative technical voice for Kamiwaza Federal with DoD and IC customers. - Serve as a trusted technical and mission advisor to senior government leaders (GO/FO, SES), program executives, and operational stakeholders. - Lead classified and unclassified executive briefings, architecture reviews, and mission workshops; facilitate technical decision-making. - Own technical escalation for complex customer situations, pilots, and competitive bake-offs. AI & Platform Authority - Demonstrate mastery of: - AI/ML systems including LLMs, SLMs, VLMs, agentic frameworks, and evaluation/guardrails - AI orchestration and inference at scale across cloud, core, and edge - Distributed data platforms, streaming/event-driven architectures, and real-time situational awareness systems - Retrieval and data orchestration patterns for mission data (RAG, entity resolution, polystructured data) - Model evaluation, governance, and trustworthy AI in operational settings - Secure deployments in classified, air-gapped, denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments - Guide customers on secure AI adoption with full data containment and mission-based access control. - Define federal reference architectures, deployment patterns, and “how-to” guidance that accelerates pilots → production. DoD & IC Go-To-Market Enablement - Partner with Sales, Capture, and BD leadership to: - Shape technical win strategies and differentiated solution narratives - Qualify opportunities and influence bid/no-bid decisions - Support OTAs, rapid prototypes, pilots, and transition-to-production pathways - Serve as the technical closer in high-value, technically complex pursuits. - Build repeatable GTM assets: reference architectures, demo flows, competitive positioning, and enablement for account teams and partners. Bridge Engineering and Mission Reality - Translate operational mission needs into clear, actionable product and engineering priorities. - Provide continuous feedback to platform, security, and infrastructure teams based on real-world government constraints. - Ensure internal teams understand classification, deployment, and sustainment realities. - Help drive internal alignment on packaging, deployment automation, documentation, and supportability for federal environments. Ecosystem & Partner Leadership - Engage and align with systems integrators, d