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Chief AI Officer
Full-timeOslo, Norway · HybridCompetitive salaryEquity
As Chief AI Officer you will own NeuroStrike's AI strategy and execution. You will set the direction for our agentic pentest engine, our open-weight model stack running on sovereign European infrastructure, and the evaluation and fine-tuning pipeline that turns every engagement into a better model. You will build and lead the AI team, work directly with the CEO on product and company strategy, and represent NeuroStrike's AI work to customers, partners and investors as we scale.
What you'll do
- Own the AI strategy and roadmap for our autonomous pentest engine and future AI products
- Lead model selection, fine-tuning and serving of open-weight models on sovereign infrastructure
- Build rigorous evaluation and benchmarking so every claimed improvement is measured
- Hire, grow and lead a high-performing team of AI and research engineers
- Own AI governance, safety and compliance, including the EU AI Act
- Represent our AI work to customers, partners, investors and the research community
What we're looking for
- You must be willing and eligible to be authorised for classified information at BEGRENSET / NATO RESTRICTED level, and to undergo security clearance (sikkerhetsklarering) under the Norwegian Security Act if a customer assignment requires it. This is required due to the nature of our customers.
- Senior experience leading ML or LLM teams that shipped AI systems to production
- Deep hands-on understanding of LLMs, agents, evaluation and fine-tuning
- A track record of turning research into reliable products
- Ability to set strategy and still go deep on technical detail
- Experience hiring and developing strong technical teams
- Professional working proficiency in English
Nice to have
- Background or strong interest in offensive or defensive security
- Experience with self-hosted inference and GPU infrastructure
- Publications, open-source work or a visible profile in the AI community
- Startup or scale-up leadership experience
- Norwegian or another Scandinavian language
What we offer
- Competitive salary and terms
- Equity: stock options through our employee option programme — share in the value you help build
- A central office at Aker Brygge, Oslo, with hybrid working