Technical Co-Founder - New MedTech Venture

Location: United States (required).

Type: Co-founder, equity-only

About us

Lapis AI Consults, a NYC-based AI consultancy focused on business-first AI implementation, is starting a new venture in medical technology. The venture is led by the Founder and CEO of Lapis, who brings product and marketing leadership along with a patient community and media presence.

We are looking for a technical co-founder to build the venture's first product from the ground up.

The problem we are solving

A rare neurological disorder is treatable and often curable. The problem is finding it. Current technology is the bottleneck.

We are building an AI-driven clinical decision-support system for a neurological condition that is frequently missed by standard testing, leaving patients without answers for years. The product combines patient-specific modeling, medical imaging, and patient-reported data to help patients understand their situation and clinicians decide what to investigate next.

The role

As technical co-founder and CTO, you will:

• Set the technical vision and architecture for the product
• Build the first prototype hands-on, then hire and lead the engineering team
• Own data security and HIPAA compliance from day one
• Partner with the CEO to recruit clinical advisors and research partners, and earn their trust as a peer
• Partner with the CEO to meet with investors

Must-haves

• US-based and authorized to work in the US. US citizenship or permanent residency
• Hands-on experience with probabilistic/statistical modeling, ML, neural networks, and quantifying uncertainty
• Strong Python experience
• Has shipped software that handles PHI or other regulated data , and understands HIPAA controls in practice
• A 0-to-1 builder: comfortable being the first engineer, then growing a team
• Can explain technical decisions clearly to clinicians, funders, and non-technical partners

Preferred

• Healthcare experience
• Physiological or physics-based simulation (experience with SciPy compartment models, FEniCS, OpenFOAM or similar)
• Structured data extraction
• Software as a Medical Device, FDA, or IRB-reviewed research experience

What we offer

• Co-founder equity with standard vesting, and the CTO title
• Build with bleeding-edge tools from day one
• Ownership of the technical vision from the first line of code
• A founder who brings patient community access, go-to-market and media visibility, so you can focus on the build
• Work that could change how hard-to-diagnose patients are finally diagnosed and treated

How to apply

Send a short note to with:

• your LinkedIn, resume and a link to work you're proud of (GitHub, papers or a portfolio), and
• a statement acknowledging you agree to an equity-only arrangement until we receive funding