Founding CTO

Description

Malkolm is a chief of staff for your body. He connects your clinical records, wearables, sleep, workouts, and nutrition into one clear move every day, learning your baselines and remembering your history so the guidance is yours, not generic. Private by design, and never sold to advertisers.

We're in invite-only early access, and the people who have him keep coming back on their own, every day, with no marketing. That's the proof we needed. Near-term we're driving to the first million users. Bootstrapped by design: real traction first, then YC / Speedrun to first institutional capital.

The mission is bigger than an app: put expert-grade health guidance within reach of everyone, not a privileged few.

The role

This is the technical half of the founding team. You own technology and engineering end to end, as a co-founder, working directly with me to build Malkolm into the category-defining product. You will still ship code yourself at this stage, and you will build the team that scales it.

What you'll own:

• The architecture for the multi-source health-data platform and the intelligence pipeline, and keeping it fast as it scales.
• The agentic core: the reasoning, memory, and feedback loops that make the coach actually work, not an LLM bolted onto an app.
• Security and health-data compliance, on data people trust us with.
• The engineering team: you set the bar, and you hire and lead the people who follow you.
• The technical roadmap, with final call on technical decisions.

The profile

1. You've built data-intensive consumer mobile apps that real people use every day.
2. You've led engineering, and attract strong engineers. People want to build with you.
3. You build AI-native from first principles, not by wrapping an LLM around a CRUD app.
4. You ship fast, own architecture, and operate with high judgment and little direction.
5. You have taste for consumer UX. You care how it feels, not just that it works.
6. You have health or wearable data, agent and LLM systems, backend at scale, Swift and HealthKit.

How this is paid

Equity only at this stage, real founding equity, with cash that turns on as we hit revenue milestones. This is a bet. We think it's the right one, and the alpha numbers back it.

To apply

Tell us what you've built. Introduce yourself and point us to something you shipped.

https://malkolm.health