Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO)

The role

The Field CTO acts as a technical ambassador bridging engineering innovation and enterprise customer needs. You will advise C-suite executives and lead architectural discussions to support AI and analytics workloads.

What you will do

• Act as a technical advisor to C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies.
• Design and validate complex, large-scale architectures for enterprise customers.
• Guide customers in integrating MinIO into AI/ML pipelines and data lakehouse ecosystems.
• Represent MinIO at industry conferences, webinars, and meetups.
• Write technical whitepapers, reference architectures, and blog posts.
• Partner with enterprise sales and customer success teams on high-stakes deals.
• Unblock technical objections and provide guidance during PoCs and deployments.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to product and engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing or evangelist capacity
• Experience presenting to technical audiences and C-level executives
• Deep architectural understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows and vector databases
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML data pipelines and frameworks
• Understanding of hardware bottlenecks in AI and GPU data starvation
• Expertise in Open Table Formats and their integration with object storage
• Proficiency with modern query engines and compute frameworks
• Solid grasp of the evolution to modern Data Lakehouse architectures
• Strong command of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native orchestration
• Deep understanding of the AWS S3 API, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems design

About the company

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. It provides AIStor and MemKV to unify the data stack across core, edge, and cloud.