CTO wanted for GreenTech Startup

We are looking for a software developer with experience in image processing, machine vision and machine learning. You should be proficient in Python. If you share our vision of a sustainable circular economy, then let's change the construction industry together!

• Python
• Machine Learning
• Machine Vision
• Software developing
• App Developer

You have strengths in...

• words and communication
• numbers, data and logic
• design and visuals
• pushing and getting things done

You already have...

• participated in an accelerator/incubator
• worked as fulltime employee
• lead fulltime employees

At CMID, you can expect to be part of an exciting and meaningful journey—building a deeptech startup from the ground up. We’re tackling one of the biggest sustainability challenges of our time: turning materials and components into information carriers to enable a truly circular construction industry. This means your work will have real impact—and you’ll learn a lot along the way.

The spectrum of tasks is broad and dynamic. You’ll be involved in developing our core technology stack: from smartphone-based scanning and surface recognition to building the app interface, designing data structures, and shaping secure, decentralized access to material identities. We're also creating backend tools for manufacturers and interfaces for recyclers, developers, and regulators—so there’s plenty of room to get hands-on with full-stack development, computer vision, or UX.
Because we work closely with scientists, industry stakeholders, and early pilot partners, you’ll get direct feedback from the field—testing, learning, and iterating in agile cycles. Your ideas will directly shape how our product evolves.

You’ll also experience all the highs (and challenges) of early-stage startup life: rapid decision-making and the chance to grow with the company—both professionally and personally. CMID offers a rare opportunity to help build a venture that blends cutting-edge tech, sustainability, and industry transformation.

You have the opportunity to work on a vision with added value for society in an early-stage start-up. You can contribute and realise your ideas with a great deal of creative freedom. As founders, we bring a wealth of experience in the industry and a strong network to the table.

We give each material and component an identity to securely link data for effective reuse. For a truly sustainable construction industry.

We create the interface between digital data and physical materials by assigning each component a unique, permanent identity. This ID is linked to the properties of the material, like a “fingerprint” or a “biometric photo”. Without using QR codes, chips or other visible identification symbols, the ID enables solid traceability and a link to data that is tamper-proof and resistant against change. A link that can be established whenever and wherever it is needed.

Our unique system seamlessly integrates into material production lines through a fast, scalable process. Once allocated our ID offers a universally recognizable material identity that boosts sustainability, compliance, and data- driven decision-making – accessible right from your smartphone.

Challenges

The biggest challenge ahead is transforming a highly fragmented, conservative industry like construction into a digitally connected, circular ecosystem. While there is growing awareness and regulatory pressure for sustainability, most material data is still siloed, unreliable, or lost after a building’s initial use phase. Convincing industry players to adopt a fundamentally new way of working—where every material has a digital identity and long-term traceability—is not just a technical task, but a cultural one. We need to build trust, prove real-world scalability, and show that circularity isn’t just good for the planet—it also makes economic sense. That means navigating long sales cycles, aligning diverse stakeholders, and scaling a deeptech solution that works reliably in complex, physical environments. But we see this as more than a hurdle—it’s our mission. And with the right partners and support, we’re ready to lead the change.

Target group

We address the construction and real estate sector—one of the world’s largest industries, with enormous ecological and economic impact. Our primary target group are building material and component manufacturers. They face increasing pressure to provide transparent, verifiable product information—on ingredients, emissions, and origin—driven by regulation (e.g. EU Green Deal), customers, and investors. CMID helps them meet these demands efficiently, enabling digital product passports, ESG compliance, and new circular business models. In addition, construction companies and real estate developers benefit from improved material transparency and traceability. Urban miners and recyclers can identify and recover valuable resources more effectively. Regulators and financiers gain access to reliable, tamper-proof data for better risk and impact assessment. As digital, circular practices become mandatory, demand for secure, scalable identification solutions is growing rapidly. We start in the German and European market, but our technology is globally scalable and transferable to sectors like infrastructure or industrial manufacturing.