Chief Technology Officer

Energycapitalx (ECX) is looking for a rare hybrid—a deep-tech engineer and commercial deal-maker—to help us build the technical backbone of a next-gen energy capital platform.1

Based in San Diego or Geneva (Hybrid/Remote available), you will lead our sovereign infrastructure and drive enterprise value at the intersection of AI, Cyber, and Infrastructure.1

The Role

As our CTO, you will own the technical mandate to capture a $2+ trillion market opportunity. Your primary objective is to drive a vertically integrated machine toward a $250M revenue milestone by 2029.1

What You’ll Do

• Architect Sovereign Infrastructure: Lead the engineering of gigawatt-class AI infrastructure, ensuring total control from silicon to signal.1
• Drive Strategic M&A: Own technical due diligence and integration roadmaps to capture margin across our strategic pipeline.1
• Operational Leadership: Function as an executive peer to the President, overseeing productization, cloud/SaaS/AI security, and complex network management.1

Who You Are

• Battle-Tested Operator: You have an executive track record as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or Principal Architect in hyperscale data centers, cloud (IaaS/SaaS), or enterprise security.1
• Deep-Tech & Commercial: You possess rigorous engineering instincts and the ability to translate complex technical concepts (like TRL matrices) for institutional investors and the Board.1
• Growth Mindset: You thrive in high-growth, high-stakes environments where compliance and IP protection are paramount.1

Why Join Us?

• Performance-Aligned Compensation: Full-time executive role governed by a structured Management Incentive Plan (MIP).1
• No Ceiling on Impact: Direct alignment between your contributions and the enterprise value.

The ECX business model is organized into four core strategic pillars that move beyond traditional "single-layer" service models to form a vertically integrated "Digistructure" machine.

Theme 1: The "Digistructure" Strategy12

• Core Philosophy: ECX operates at the intersection of three colliding industries: Cybersecurity, AI, and Physical Infrastructure (Digistructure).2
• The Edge: By controlling the physical foundation (data centers) and the intelligence layer (Cipherbit IaaS), ECX captures margin leakage that competitors lose to third-party providers.2
• The Sales Engine: The Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) model utilizes Exacore AI to perform the heavy lifting of lead scoring across 8 dimensions (Network, Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, App, Data, Physical, Geopolitical), allowing human experts to close deals with high conversion rates.23

Theme 2: Sovereign Infrastructure (Digistructure)

• Operational Backbone: Transitioning from traditional services to a sovereign IaaS leader.1
• The Stack: The "Digistructure" gigawatt-class AI platform provides grid-independent power, U.S.-only hardware supply chains, and air-gapped enclaves for federal/defense missions.2
• Hardware Tiering: Ranging from "Frontier" nodes (H200/H100) for high-margin sovereign AI to "Baseline Workhorse" nodes (A100) for rapid capital recovery.4

Theme 3: The Active Defense Ecosystem

• Continuous Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ): ECX moves beyond static, quarterly compliance checks. The platform translates security telemetry into real-time, dollar-denominated financial risk.1
• Closed-Loop Orchestration: The platform embeds automated countermeasures, ensuring that detected threats trigger immediate, machine-speed responses through the ActiveDefense/ActiveVuln/ActiveAI triad.1

Theme 4: Strategic Growth & Market Access

• M&A Catalyst: Executing the acquisition roadmap to secure specific capabilities: Hivefury.com (Octahedron AI Engine), HotWAN.com (AI-enabled red-teaming), and A-Block.net (EMEA expansion and Swiss/Blockchain security).2
• Regulatory Dominance: Embedding "Quantum-Resilient Orchestration" (BX20) to automate compliance with FDA 524B, IEC 62443, and ISO 13485, targeting high-margin, non-discretionary regulatory spend.1

Part 2: Business Line Profiles & Personas

.1. ECX ActiveDefense 

Function: Serving as the perimeter gateway and SD-WAN controller. It enforces strict Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and identity-verified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) protocols using Palo Alto and Check Point gateways.156

• Value Proposition: Definitively moves past outdated perimeter models. It ensures that no device or user connection is trusted by default, eliminating lateral movement risk for critical infrastructure.6

2. ECX ActiveVuln 

• Function: Manages continuous asset attack-surface analysis and real-time security testing. It replaces legacy, static quarterly audits with automated red-teaming of models and nodes.156
• Value Proposition: Provides ceaseless security validation. It surfaces vulnerabilities the moment they appear, ensuring an immediate security responsiveness that manual audits cannot achieve.6

3. ECX ActiveAI 

• Function: The dedicated security layer for the AI supply chain and application data plane. It mathematically prohibits unsafe deserialization (e.g., Insecure Pickle), enforces safetensors for model weights, and uses Pydantic/XML-based architectures to block prompt injection.156
• Value Proposition: Governs the ingestion and execution of ML models. It isolates execution clusters from poisoned payloads, making it the bedrock of trust for AI-driven workflows.16

Q&A: Chris Webb [email protected]