CTO / Founding Engineer - Trigger (Computational Creativity)

We HATE social media, but we LOVE studying people.

Trigger isn’t a scheduler and it doesn’t generate content. The world has enough of those.

Trigger is a computational creativity layer: it studies context and human behavior to explain why posts work, what to publish next, and how content will perform - improving social performance by understanding people, not by posting more.

Backed by Builders (AI-native venture studio) and working with leading social-driven companies as design partners. Trigger is pre-product, early validation stage with paying design partners.

The role

We’re looking for a Founding Technical Leader - someone who can be a Founding Engineer or CTO builder - to architect and build Trigger’s cognitive engine: the multimodal system that turns creative behavior into understanding.

You’ll work across:

• multimodal AI (video, image, audio, text)

• full-stack product engineering

• context + knowledge modeling

• insight + prediction systems

You’ll be building alongside Federico Motta (content psychology & narrative intelligence). Federico brings the why; you help build the how.

What you'll do

• Design and build the core architecture of Trigger’s AI + product stack

• Implement ingestion pipelines, embeddings, reasoning workflows, and APIs

• Develop the early Context Graph connecting creative assets, signals, and outcomes

• Ship the Insight & Prediction Engine - why content worked, what to do next

• Rapidly prototype → harden → deploy a fast, beautiful product used by strategists and creators

• (If senior/CTO level) Set engineering culture, own technical vision, and hire the first engineers

What we're looking for

• You’ve built and shipped end-to-end AI products (web + AI layer)

• Strong across backend and AI systems

• Experience with multimodal models is a strong plus

• Deep familiarity with RAG, vector DBs, graph thinking, semantics

• Strong systems thinking: data pipelines, embeddings, infra, orchestration

• Love for quick iteration, shipping, and problem-solving

• Interest in storytelling, design, and human behavior

• Founder-level ownership; comfortable in early-stage chaos

• (If CTO profile) Ability to set technical vision, roadmap, and represent the technical thesis to investors

Indicative stack

• Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, React/Tailwind

• Backend: TypeScript or Python (FastAPI/Node), tRPC

• AI: LangGraph / LangChain, OpenAI / Anthropic

• Data: pgvector / Weaviate / Pinecone, PostgreSQL, Neo4j

• Infra: Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Cloudflare

Why this is exciting

• Category creation: not analytics, not scheduling - cognitive intelligence

• Hard AI challenges: multimodal context engineering

• Immediate impact: direct access to top-tier design partners

• Upside: early equity + genuine ownership (including co-founder equity for the right person)

How to reach out

Send a short note with what you’ve built (product, repo, demo) and why this problem grabs you. No formal cover letter needed.