Technical Cofounder

Location: Singapore (preferred) | Remote-friendly for the right candidate

Industry: Deep Tech | NDT | Laser-based Inspection | AI/ML

Company: NexaScan Pte. Ltd.

About NexaScan

At NexaScan, we're reinventing how the world inspects critical infrastructure. Backed by the Singapore Deep Tech Alliance and leading industrial partners, we are building the next-generation non-destructive testing (NDT) platform using laser shearography, AI, and smart automation.

Our mission is simple: Make industrial inspection faster, smarter, and radically more reliable. Whether it's detecting sub-surface defects in weld cladding or ensuring safety in critical assets, NexaScan is pioneering a solution that goes beyond today's standards.

If you're an enterprising technologist who thrives in ambiguity, loves building deep-tech products from scratch, and wants to lead a breakthrough in a decades-old industry — we want to meet you.

We are looking for a visionary Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who can lead the development of our shearography-based NDT platform from lab to field.

You will drive the technical strategy, R&D iterations, product roadmap, and team formation for a highly interdisciplinary hardware-software product. You'll collaborate with customers, researchers, and product teams to turn bleeding-edge technology into a robust, user-centric solution.

What You'll Do

• Own the end-to-end technical vision of NexaScan's core product — a laser shearography-based NDT system with integrated AI-driven defect analysis.
• Iterate and innovate on the technology — improve precision, stability, automation, portability, and field usability.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team across optics, mechanical design, embedded systems, software, and machine learning.
• Design and validate prototypes, from breadboard setups to field-ready devices.
• Collaborate closely with pilot customers to align the product roadmap with real-world industrial pain points.
• Guide software development for image processing, UX, and AI-driven diagnostics.
• Ensure product decisions align with long-term scalability, manufacturability, and compliance.
• Help raise technical capital — through grants, investors, or industry pilots.
• Be comfortable with failure, ambiguity, and iteration — and lead through it with clarity and resilience.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in engineering/product development.
• Background in systems engineering, mechatronics, applied physics, or related domains .
• Strong working knowledge of optics, lasers, mechanical stability, sensors, and control systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional product teams that span hardware, software, and AI.
• Proven track record of building complex tech products from scratch to market.
• Prior experience as a founder, CTO, or tech/product lead in an early-stage startup or deep-tech venture.
• Passion for solving customer-centric problems with technical innovation.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making under ambiguity.
• Exposure to non-destructive testing (NDT), laser interferometry, or shearography.
• Experience with industrial certifications, standards (e.g., ISO, ASTM).
• Familiarity with OpenCV, ML frameworks, real-time imaging, or hardware/software co-design.
• Strong industry network across deep tech, manufacturing, or industrial automation.
• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the technical DNA of a venture-backed deep-tech company solving a real industrial problem.
• Work with leading researchers, investors, and industrial partners.
• Build a product with global impact — in energy, aerospace, infrastructure, and beyond.
• Equity stake in a fast-scaling venture.
• A culture that values grit, curiosity, openness, and bold thinking.

NexaScan is supported by IMI plc:

IMI plc is a global specialist engineering company that creates breakthrough solutions. We design, build and service highly engineered products in fluid and motion control applications.

IMI Venture Studio operates as a catalyst for innovation within IMI plc. We incubate new ideas, technologies and business models that will future proof the energy and industrial sector. How we achieve this is by partnering with founders to build new ventures.