Chief Technology Officer

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🕒 September 1

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Kodama Systems

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $7M Seed Round - Kodama Systems on 2025-10

Hardware • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

Kodama Systems is a company that builds remote-control and automation systems for the logging industry. Their RS1 product converts conventional skidders into “robo-skidders,” enabling remote operation to address operator shortages, increase production without adding headcount, and add capacity without purchasing more machines. The company positions its technology as field-proven and targeted at commercial logging operations, and highlights real-world deployments and media coverage.

📋 Description

• Own Kodama’s technical strategy and engineering roadmap • Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of five software engineers and two hardware engineers • Drive development and deployment of increasingly autonomous capabilities on heavy equipment operating in production • Lead development of safety-critical systems as autonomy expands • Represent Kodama’s technology with investors, OEM partners, and other external stakeholders • Transition the company from production teleoperation to autonomy • Set direction for autonomy and safety systems • Develop a strong engineering team and help shape what Kodama builds

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience with autonomous vehicles, autonomous machinery, or mobile robotics • Experience leading and developing highly capable senior and staff engineers • Strong judgment about the tradeoffs required to ship reliable robotic systems in the physical world • Ability to communicate a clear technical vision internally and externally • Low ego, high ownership, intellectual honesty, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment • Particularly valuable: outdoor or off-road autonomy experience • Particularly valuable: experience with modern learning-based robotics, including world models, robot foundation models, generative policies, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning • Particularly valuable: safety-critical robotic or vehicle systems experience • Particularly valuable: experience as a CTO, VP of Engineering, senior engineering leader, or technical founder at a robotics or autonomous-systems company • Executive-level experience is indicated; no specific years or educational credential stated • Role may be remote within the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity ownership commensurate with a true executive leadership role • Competitive executive cash compensation (amount not specified)