Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | Equity Only

Founding Team | Beacon

Location: Remote (U.S. Preferred)

Compensation: Founder Equity (Meaningful Ownership) Future Salary Post-Funding/Revenue

Stage: Founder-Led MVP

Reports To: CEO & Founder

The Opportunity

Beacon is building the operating system for childcare safety, supervision, and compliance.

Every day, childcare centers are responsible for the safety of millions of children, yet most supervision, documentation, compliance monitoring, and incident detection still rely on manual observation and paper processes.

Beacon combines computer vision, event intelligence, and AI to create a real-time awareness platform that helps childcare operators identify risk, improve supervision quality, document incidents, and maintain compliance.

We are seeking a technical co-founder who wants to build a category-defining company from the ground floor. This is a company-building role. You will own technology strategy, architecture, product development, hiring, and long-term technical vision alongside the founder.

About Beacon

Beacon uses AI-powered computer vision to monitor childcare environments and surface critical safety insights including:

• Child-to-staff ratio monitoring
• Classroom supervision quality
• Lost child detection
• Exit and perimeter alerts
• Playground safety monitoring
• Incident detection and review
• Compliance documentation
• Operational intelligence for childcare leadership

Our long-term vision is to become the intelligence layer for childcare operations, safety, and risk management.

What You'll Build

Computer Vision Platform

• Real-time child and staff detection
• Object tracking across camera views
• Activity recognition
• Supervision scoring
• Risk event detection

Event Intelligence Engine

• Rule-based safety detection
• AI-generated event summaries
• Alerting infrastructure
• Timeline reconstruction
• Incident review workflows

AI Infrastructure

• Video processing pipelines
• Vision model orchestration
• Context-aware AI systems
• Multi-model architecture
• Continuous model improvement systems

Platform Architecture

• Cloud infrastructure
• Scalable backend services
• Data pipelines
• Security and privacy systems
• Enterprise-grade reliability

Responsibilities

As CTO

You will:

• Own overall technical strategy and architecture
• Make key technology decisions
• Lead product engineering execution
• Build and manage engineering teams
• Establish development processes
• Drive infrastructure scalability
• Lead security and privacy initiatives
• Participate in fundraising discussions
• Work directly with pilot customers
• Translate customer problems into technical solutions

As a Co-Founder

You will:

• Help shape company strategy
• Participate in fundraising
• Help recruit future leadership
• Build company culture
• Share responsibility for company success
• Make difficult decisions under uncertainty

Ideal Background

We care far more about ability than credentials. You may be a computer vision specialist, an AI infrastructure engineer, or a technical founder looking for the right market.

Strong Experience In

Required

• Full-stack product development
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• System architecture
• AI/ML product deployment
• Building products from zero to production
• Computer vision
• Event-driven architectures
• Real-time systems