Chief Technology Officer (machine Manufacturing)

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER (CTO)

WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW

• Location: Barcelona
• Contract: Permanent, senior leadership role
• Language: English is the working language across the business
• Team size: 20–30+ engineers across hardware, software, electronics & materials
• Technology: Proprietary, next-generation printing hardware working with functional, high-viscosity materials

THE OPPORTUNITY

This is a rare CTO role for someone who wants to own a genuinely differentiated hardware platform, not maintain incremental improvements on legacy tech.

The company has already achieved what most never do:

• Fully in-house proprietary technology
• A complete, integrated hardware and software platform
• Proven materials capability that unlocks applications previously considered impossible

You’ll lead the transition from cutting-edge R&D into robust, reliable, industrial-grade systems ready for global deployment. This is about taking breakthrough physics, materials science, and precision engineering and turning it into something customers can run 24/7.

YOUR IMPACT

As CTO, you’ll be responsible for:

• Defining and owning the long-term technology roadmap
• Turning prototypes into modular, production-ready systems
• Ensuring quality, reliability, and manufacturability at industrial scale
• Leading a highly multidisciplinary engineering organisation across hardware, software, electronics, firmware, and materials
• Acting as the senior technical authority with customers, partners, and investors

This is a role for someone who enjoys technical depth but can also zoom out and make the right architectural and strategic decisions.

WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON

• Advanced printhead and fluid-handling systems
• Complex system architecture across mechanics, electronics, and software
• Intelligent software platforms
• Design-for-manufacture and industrialisation of deep-tech hardware
• Strategic partnerships with research institutes and industrial partners

WHAT MAKES SOMEONE SUCCESSFUL HERE

• 10+ years in deep-tech engineering environments (additive manufacturing, inkjet, robotics, precision electronics, or similar)
• A proven track record of scaling hardware from lab to industrial reality
• Comfortable leading across disciplines, even if your core expertise sits in one
• Hands-on when needed; strategic when required
• Calm, patient, and credible in long hardware development cycles