Job description
CTO / Technical Co-Founder
Company Overview
We are developing a highly disruptive basic technology with diverse market potential. 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.
Job Summary
We are looking for an equity-aligned technical co-founder and operating CTO for a new commercialization company around NLEVEL. 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.
Key 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.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 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.
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.
