
NLC Health Ventures · Strasbourg
CTO/ HEAD OF ENGINEERING (ROBOTIC ENDOSCOPY) Location: Paris or Strasbourg, France, with the ability to commute 2 days per week to one or both cities Commitmen...
Location: Paris or Strasbourg, France, with the ability to commute 2 days per week to one or both cities
Commitment: Full-time
Start Date: June 2026
Package: Market-competitive salary for early-stage startups, plus performance bonus and milestone-based equity
AIDO is an early-stage medical robotics venture on a mission to transform the fight against cancer through innovation in robotic
endoscopy. Originating from the world-renowned IHU Strasbourg, the company is developing a novel robotic “third hand” add-on for
flexible endoscopes. This compact and intuitive electromechanical assistant enhances the performance of therapeutic endoscopic
procedures.
AIDO’s proprietary technology improves ergonomics, stability, and instrument control, reducing the physical strain and
coordination burden typically placed on endoscopists. By making complex therapeutic procedures easier, more reproducible, and more
comfortable to perform, AIDO enables physicians to treat cancers and pre-cancerous lesions endoscopically rather than surgically,
supporting earlier and non-invasive intervention for patients.
Validated by more than 60 clinicians, AIDO is now entering a pivotal phase, industrializing its prototype into a clinical-grade
medical device, advancing regulatory pathways, and shaping future AI-enabled capabilities.
AIDO is seeking a hands-on CTO / Head of Engineering who can lead product development end-to-end, establish the engineering
foundation of the company, and drive the technical roadmap as it enters a new phase of growth.
This role combines strategic influence with deep technical execution. The successful candidate will work closely with suppliers,
clinicians, and the CEO to bring a safe, intuitive, and robust device to market.
NLC Health Ventures is a leading healthtech and biotech innovation platform based in Amsterdam, combining venture building and
fund management across Europe and North America. With 40-45 employees, NLC manages four captive funds investing in ventures from
pre-seed to Series B-C, and is fundraising for a fifth fund. The funds have a diverse LP base and are invested in over 70
companies. NLC values a collaborative, open, and impact-driven culture, where team members’ ideas and contributions truly matter.
About Terranova Backed by leading deep tech VCs, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods. Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, housing development, and defense across the United States and beyond. We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it. What to Expect We are looking for a COO or a VP Operations who can function as a true company operator: owning execution across engineering, field operations, manufacturing, recruiting, finance, customer delivery, and internal systems. This is a cofounder-level role at a very early company. This person will lead from the front, run an extremely tight operating cadence, and make sure the hundreds of things required to keep projects moving get done. The upside is meaningful equity, ownership, and the chance to help build one of the defining hard-tech companies of the next decade. Key Responsibilities ● Own company-wide execution across engineering, operations, deployments, hiring, finance, procurement, legal coordination, and customer delivery. ● Build and run the operating system of the company: weekly cadence, project plans, dashboards, accountability loops, and decision-making processes. ● Manage and motivate a high-intensity technical team while earning credibility with engineers, field operators, and founders. ● Drive field deployments from planning through completion, ensuring projects do not slip because of logistics, staffing, materials, permitting, vendors, or customer coordination. ● Work directly with the CEO to support fundraising, board communication, strategic planning, and company priorities. ● Support GTM and customer execution across PE firms, developers, infrastructure owners, government agencies, USACE, and other defense-adjacent customers. ● Recruit, evaluate, and help close exceptional talent across technical, operational, and commercial roles. ● Thrive at the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life, including long days, and field hours when needed. Requirements ● Exceptional operational judgment, intensity, and ownership. ● Experience leading strategy, operations, deployment, product, or company-building functions at a high-growth deep tech, robotics, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, or hardware startup. ● Ability to manage technical teams and make high-quality decisions around complex engineering and field operations, even without being the deepest technical expert in the room. ● Strong comfort with customers, investors, board members, vendors, and government / defense stakeholders. ● Willingness to work on-site in Berkeley, CA. ● U.S. work authorization. We cannot sponsor H-1B visas at this time. Preferred Skills & Experience ● Prior experience as a VP / Director / Head of Strategy or Operations at a deep tech company. ● Prior experience as a COO, CPO, CTO, VP Ops, or GM experience at a Series B or later hardware startup. ● Experience deploying products that are hard to sell and hard to build. ● Founder or founder-level operating experience. Important to have seen 0->1. ● Strong finance, strategic planning, and fundraising fluency. Ideal Archetype ● A high-aptitude operator 3-15 years into their career who has already scaled unusually fast. They need to be the smartest person at our company. Wicked, cunning, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures. ● Someone who could plausibly be a founder, but who chooses our rocket ship over starting from zero. ● Has built or run something real in robotics, aerospace, defense, infrastructure, construction tech, or complex hardware. ● Can walk into a messy early-stage company, create order, raise the bar, and make everyone more intense and effective. ● Has enough technical taste to manage engineers, enough commercial judgment to help sell, and enough operational force to keep the whole machine moving. ● Comes from a flagship deep tech company, an Elon-founded company, or a serious venture-backed hardware company. We are optimizing for aptitude, intensity, and company pedigree over title.
ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTOR GROUP Constructor Group is driven by the belief that knowledge is the solution to all evil. We are a global institution focused on making scientists, teachers, and students more effective and efficient. Our integrated ecosystem focuses on fundamental technology needs relevant to science and education: generative AI, MetaPresence, computing, robotics, energy, health & bio, and neuroscience. Constructor Group consists of three main pillars – Constructor Knowledge, Constructor Capital, and Constructor Tech – uniting science, technology, and education around a single deeply fundamental and yet very applied mission. ABOUT THE ROLE Constructor Group is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the company’s technology and software development function. This role is responsible for defining and executing the technology strategy, managing engineering teams, ensuring high-quality product delivery, and building scalable, reliable, and secure technology solutions. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with a hands-on engineering background, experience managing development teams, and the ability to align technology decisions with business goals. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead the software development function and manage engineering teams. * Define and execute the technology strategy in alignment with business and product goals. * Own the development roadmap together with product, business, and executive stakeholders. * Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of software products and technical solutions. * Build scalable, secure, and reliable architecture. * Review and improve engineering processes, development standards, code quality, and release management. * Manage technical priorities, resource allocation, and delivery risks. * Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, team leads, architects, and developers. * Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for technical teams. * Drive best practices in software development, testing, DevOps, security, and documentation. * Evaluate and select technologies, tools, frameworks, and vendors when needed. * Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress to senior leadership in a clear, business-oriented way. REQUIREMENTS * Proven experience as a CTO, Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, Head of Development, or similar senior technology leadership role. * Strong hands-on background in software engineering and system architecture. * Experience managing engineering teams and technical managers. * Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, security, and scalable architecture. * Experience delivering complex digital products or platforms. * Ability to balance strategic technology vision with hands-on execution. * Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. * Experience working in fast-paced, international, or matrix organizations. * Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Fluent English and Spanish are required NICE TO HAVE * Experience in EdTech, SaaS, AI, data platforms, enterprise software, or digital learning products. * Experience with distributed international engineering teams. * Experience in technical transformation, platform modernization, or scaling engineering organizations. * Previous startup or scale-up experience. SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE * A clear and realistic technology roadmap is in place. * Engineering teams deliver predictably and with high quality. * Technical architecture supports business growth and product scalability. * Communication between product, engineering, and business stakeholders is smooth. * Development processes become more structured, transparent, and efficient.
OUR MISSION Constructor’s mission is to enable all educational organisations to provide high-quality digital education to 10x people with 10x efficiency. With strong expertise in machine intelligence and data science, Constructor’s all-in-one platform for education and research addresses today’s pressing educational challenges: access inequality, tech clutter, and low engagement of students. PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME IN ENGLISH ONLY. ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTOR GROUP Constructor Group is driven by the belief that knowledge is the solution to all evil. We are a global institution focused on making scientists, teachers, and students more effective and efficient. Our integrated ecosystem focuses on fundamental technology needs relevant to science and education: generative AI, MetaPresence, computing, robotics, energy, health & bio, and neuroscience. Constructor Group consists of three main pillars – Constructor Knowledge, Constructor Capital, and Constructor Tech – uniting science, technology, and education around a single deeply fundamental and yet very applied mission. ABOUT THE ROLE Constructor Group is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the company’s technology and software development function. This role is responsible for defining and executing the technology strategy, managing engineering teams, ensuring high-quality product delivery, and building scalable, reliable, and secure technology solutions. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with a hands-on engineering background, experience managing development teams, and the ability to align technology decisions with business goals. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead the software development function and manage engineering teams. * Define and execute the technology strategy in alignment with business and product goals. * Own the development roadmap together with product, business, and executive stakeholders. * Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of software products and technical solutions. * Build scalable, secure, and reliable architecture. * Review and improve engineering processes, development standards, code quality, and release management. * Manage technical priorities, resource allocation, and delivery risks. * Lead, mentor, and develop engineering managers, team leads, architects, and developers. * Support recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for technical teams. * Drive best practices in software development, testing, DevOps, security, and documentation. * Evaluate and select technologies, tools, frameworks, and vendors when needed. * Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress to senior leadership in a clear, business-oriented way. REQUIREMENTS * Proven experience as a CTO, Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, Head of Development, or similar senior technology leadership role. * Strong hands-on background in software engineering and system architecture. * Experience managing engineering teams and technical managers. * Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, security, and scalable architecture. * Experience delivering complex digital products or platforms. * Ability to balance strategic technology vision with hands-on execution. * Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. * Experience working in fast-paced, international, or matrix organizations. * Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Fluent English and Spanish are required NICE TO HAVE * Experience in EdTech, SaaS, AI, data platforms, enterprise software, or digital learning products. * Experience with distributed international engineering teams. * Experience in technical transformation, platform modernization, or scaling engineering organizations. * Previous startup or scale-up experience. SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE * A clear and realistic technology roadmap is in place. * Engineering teams deliver predictably and with high quality. * Technical architecture supports business growth and product scalability. * Communication between product, engineering, and business stakeholders is smooth. * Development processes become more structured, transparent, and efficient. WHAT WE OFFER * 💻 Choice of work equipment (e.g., laptop, monitor, etc.) * 🇬🇧 English classes (iTalki – $130 monthly) * ⏰ Flexible schedule (we usually work between 09:00/10:00 and 18:00/19:00 CET or EET) * 👶 Newborn bonus (€500 per child) * 🧠 Patent remuneration * 🌴 Paid leave * 🧑💻 Remote work in locations without our offices * Hybrid work in locations with offices (2 days in-office, 3 days remote) Constructor fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone can become their best self. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or other protected characteristics. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply.