Chief Technology Officer

Early-stage Gen IV nuclear company, Europe

Capax Mundi is supporting an early-stage Gen IV nuclear company in the search for a Chief Technology Officer. The company has a patented reactor concept and an experienced technical founder who stays as inventor and chief scientist. What it needs now is the engineering leader who industrialises that concept and builds the organisation around it.

The opportunity

The physics and the concept are owned by the technical founder.

The CTO owns everything that comes next: translating that design into a buildable, licensable, production-ready system, building the engineering team, and representing the technical credibility that investors and partners need to see. This is a founding leadership role with real ownership.

What you would doLead the engineering organisation and own delivery of the reactor design from concept through to production design

Translate the founding physics and concept into a manufacturable, licensable systemBuild and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team from the ground up

Work alongside the technical founder, who remains the design and physics authorityRepresent the engineering case to investors and partners alongside the CEO

What we are looking forA senior engineering leader with hands-on experience in nuclear reactor development, SMR or advanced reactor programmes

A track record of taking complex systems from concept toward build or production

The credibility to lead engineering at founding team level and withstand scrutiny from sophisticated investors

Comfort operating with ambiguity, thin resources, and a technical founder who will push hard on the technology

Cross-industry candidates considered where concept-to-production leadership is genuine, for example fusion or other complex regulated hardware

LocationEurope.

R&D base in Central Europe. International candidates welcome. Relocation and travel required.

Interested?If this sounds like you, or like someone you know, I would welcome a confidential conversation. Contact Imee at Capax Mundi, i.carisma@capaxmundi.com or +31 6 25065946.