CTO - Perfume AI Startup

The Mission

What We Are Building

• **Scent DNA Engine:**
• A proprietary database mapping "molecular" fragrance preferences to personalized recommendations.
• **AI Discovery Suite:**
• An LLM-driven platform that converts complex olfactory notes into understandable consumer language.

Who You Are

• **A Perfume Nerd:**
• You actually care about fragrance.
• You understand why "notes" are hard to shop for online and want to fix that.
• **Engineering-First:**
• You are high-velocity and use tools like Claude Code to ship fast, but you have a "proper" tech background.
• You aren’t just building wrappers; you know how to build real architecture.
• **Data Scraper:**
• You can build robust, scalable scraping infrastructure to ingest data from thousands of unstructured fragrance sources without getting blocked.
• **Algorithmically Minded:**
• You’re comfortable building and iterating on multi-dimensional clustering algorithms to map user preferences against scent profiles.
• **The 0→1 Mindset:**
• You have prior startup experience and are comfortable building from scratch, prioritizing growth and monetization over "pixel-perfection".

Responsibilities

• **The Recommendation Engine:**
• Own the "Scent DNA" logic.
• Move us from basic LLM responses to a proprietary engine using clustering and vector embeddings.
• **Scraping at Scale:**
• Build and maintain the pipelines that keep our database of Middle Eastern and niche fragrances the most comprehensive in the region.
• **Rapid Prototyping:**
• Use AI-assisted coding to iterate on the discovery UI/UX daily.
• **Infrastructure:**
• Set up the backend, data privacy, and cloud architecture from scratch.
• Why Join?
• You’ll be joining a high-velocity founder (ex-Rocket Internet, ASOS) with deep distribution and domain knowledge.
• We have the data and the network; we need you to build the engine.