CTO / Technical Co-Founder

We are looking for an equity-aligned technical co-founder and operating CTO for a new commercialization company around NLEVEL.

The company and technology

NLEVEL is developing Real-time Energy Routing, a patent-backed, software-defined Layer 0 architecture for electrical infrastructure, with AI and HPC data-center power as the immediate use case. The technical starting point is a TRL 4 architecture demonstrator that has physically shown selected functions including independent channels, simultaneous AC/DC behavior, bidirectional routing, direct DC integration, modular redundancy and live hot-swap behavior. The core question is not how to sell a marginally better inverter. It is whether high-density AI infrastructure needs a more modular, fault-tolerant and programmable power architecture than today’s static conversion and distribution chains. The role must be comfortable with that distinction. We are not looking for a generic cloud CTO, DevOps leader, facilities manager, procurement executive, software-only AI founder, or someone who simply optimises the existing power chain.

IP and development posture

NLEVEL holds foundational patent protection, including WO2022223494A1, with further filings in progress. Public materials describe the architecture at a high level. Detailed technical material is shared only where appropriate and under NDA. The immediate task is not to declare a finished product or a standard. It is to translate the inventor-led architecture into a disciplined product-development and industrial-validation programme: determine the relevant AI/HPC use case, validate system boundaries and requirements with an industrial partner, and create a credible route to a field prototype.

Required CTO profile

We are looking for someone who combines:

- deep power-electronics, power-systems, or distributed-energy-systems expertise

- experience with AI/HPC data-center power, rack power, HVDC/LVDC, storage, power conversion, resilience, or adjacent critical electrical infrastructure

- a record of moving complex, inventor-led or lab-stage technology into a product-development programme and operating company

- credibility with technical decision-makers at an OCP-active hyperscaler, ODM, power-architecture company, or comparable industrial organisation

- ability to work across architecture, product, safety, validation, manufacturing and partnership development

- willingness to join initially on an equity-heavy basis, with compensation becoming part of a properly financed operating plan

Ideal backgrounds could include former technical leaders from Google, Microsoft, Meta, Wiwynn, ZT Systems, Supermicro, Dell, Vertiv, Delta, Advanced Energy, Eaton, Schneider Electric, ABB, Infineon, or another relevant OCP-active power or AI-infrastructure organisation. The specific employer matters less than real technical ownership of relevant power-architecture decisions.

Core responsibilities

• - Work with NLEVEL’s inventor, Gerald Bode, to formalise the architecture, invariants,
• technical documentation and knowledge-transfer process for the operating company.
• - Turn the demonstrator into a product-development programme: define the smallest
• viable technical scope, validation plan, safety and integration requirements, architecture
• boundaries, and development milestones.
• - Lead technical engagement with the right industrial counterparties, with the aim of an
• NDA-backed architecture assessment and, where justified, a joint development
• agreement and field-prototype path.
• - Define what must remain protected, what may later need interoperable interfaces, and
• what evidence is required before any product or standardisation decision.
• - Build the technical team, supplier and validation network needed for execution, while
• Gerald continues advancing the core architecture.
• - Represent the technical case at the OCP, e.g. at the OCP global summit October 12,
• 2026 where NLEVEL is scheduled to present its demonstrator in the Innovation Village.