High Salary: CTO

🚀 CTO & Cofounder Elevation — PingAura.ai Location: Mumbai / Hybrid Stage: Early (Pre-seed, Enterprise Paying Customer-Validated), VC Interest Compensation: Equity + Deferred Pay (Founder Role) Domain: Generative AI, Enterprise SaaS, Agentic Commerce, Marketing Tech Experience - 6-8years Minimum with experience in building & scaling succesful products 🧠 About PingAura.ai PingAura.ai is building Marketing & Sales funnels inside LLM's with AEO+ACP for Brands We help enterprises with AI Visibility, Optimise & Sell inside Large Language Models (LLMs) — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Our first product — AI Visibility Score & Optimisation Engine — measures a brand’s presence, share of voice, and influence inside LLMs. We have already cracked 15 Banks, Insurance, Soonicorns & Agencies. The next frontier: Agentic Commerce Protocols that enable zero-click sales directly inside LLMs — so customers can discover, decide, and transact without ever leaving a chat. We have: - Enterprise GTM ready ( Going live BFSI & auto majors in Nov25) - Inbound validation from CMOs, brand heads & agencies paying customers. - A sharp product roadmap covering: - Generative Engine Optimization (GEO / AEO) - AI Visibility Dashboards - Brand & Prompt Guard layers - Conversational Sales Agents & LLM Plugins - Agentic Commerce SDK We’re now looking for a CTO to build and scale this vision, who would elevated to Co-Founder role with experience & full-time dedication. ⚙️ Your Mission Lead the entire technical architecture, product roadmap, and engineering culture of PingAura.ai. From building the first LLM pipelines for AI Visibility Scoring → to deploying agentic protocols that enable commerce inside ChatGPT-like environments. 🧩 Key Responsibilities Scale Core Engine - Architect and develop PingAura’s AEO/GEO engine - Design pipelines for multi-engine visibility scoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude. AI Agent & Plugin Development - Build agentic protocols and APIs/SDKs enabling brands to transact inside LLMs. - Experiment with OpenAI GPT Actions, Anthropic Workflows, Gemini extensions, etc. Data & Infrastructure - Manage LLM API integrations, token cost optimization, caching, and data retrieval layers. - Design internal dashboards for AI visibility, insights & optimizations. Technical Leadership - Build & mentor the first 3-5 member dev team (full stack, data, AI ops). - Set engineering culture for velocity, experimentation, and reliability. Product Collaboration - Work closely with CEO & enterprise customers to prioritize the roadmap. - Translate market feedback → rapid product iteration cycles. Fundraising & Vision - Represent the tech vision in investor conversations, pitch decks, and product demos. 🧬 You Might Be a Fit If You: - Are a builder-founder who thrives in 0→1 environments. - Have deep experience in one or more: - LLM applications, RAG, embeddings, agents - Full stack product development (Next.js, Node.js, Python) - Cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Vercel) - Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or Perplexity APIs - Understand search, ranking, and retrieval systems — or SEO/AEO dynamics. - Have shipped early-stage AI products or led ML engineering teams. - Believe the future of discovery, marketing, and commerce is zero-click and LLM-native. 💎 What You’ll Get - Cofounder-level equity - Freedom to architect the future of AI marketing tech from India. - Work with a founder with 15years of deep GTM, Sales & Product experience (3 x Times founder, x- HDFC Life, ex-YONO SBI, Ironman, creator with 150M+ views). - A validated business model, enterprise leads, and early revenue traction. - Chance to build a category-defining AI company from the ground up. 🧭 PingAura.ai Vision In 2005, brands optimized for Google. In 2026, brands will optimize for AI Engines. PingAura.ai is the bridge between brand visibility and LLM discovery & creating a new distribution Sales Channel. If this vision excites you, we’d love to build this together. 📩 How to Apply / Connect Email: Hiring@pingaura.ai LinkedIn: @NishantBhardwaj11 Subject: CTO & Cofounder – PingAura.ai Include: brief note, portfolio/GitHub, and what excites you about AEO/GEO.