Chief Technology Officer

The technical outcome of NIX ANGELS: the line the roadmap the technical team the technical budget and the credibility of our technical claims in front of investors and funding bodies.

CEO / Founder. Peer to COO and Head of Design. Member of the leadership team.

3-5 full-time engineers.

NIX is working towards a fully automated clothing production line in Europe. Were starting with the simplest most challenging product: a cotton jersey T-shirt. By the end of April 2027 our production line is expected to produce 510 shirts per day with fewer than two manual interventions per shirt. A key problem with our production line remains unsolved: holding stretching and securing fabric that sags while a machine sews.

If that sounds like the most interesting problem in manufacturing and robotics it is probably exactly the right one for you.

1. The production line and the roadmap. The milestones are set against one target: a proof of concept by Aprilshirts per day. The roadmap states milestones blockers and gates. We want you to challenge every aspect of it and to build the line against those targets.

2. Digital Transformation: Drive Industry 4.0 initiatives like IoT AI-driven predictive maintenance and automation on the factory floor.

3. The technical team: hiring leading developing. You set the standard and you protect the focus.

4. Design for automation: negotiating with Product and Design which garment features stay which ones change and what a future style must respect to be machine-makeable.

5. Suppliers and partners: finding them qualifying them negotiating. Supplier acquisition is a core skill here.

6. Finance: technical budget cost breakdowns CapEx versus OpEx and estimates that survive being challenged. You build and defend the technical part of our funding case.

7. Investors and public funding: technical due diligence and the technical substance behind the grant applications our advisor is writing.

8. Machine safety and CE: you own the risk assessments and the conformity of what we build with external safety engineering support.

9. IP: what we protect what we publish what we deliberately leave open.

10. Research partnerships with universities and institutes scoped time-boxed with a specific research question under investigation.

Knowledge of textile technology garment manufacturing and material behaviour. Without it show us that you learn a new material domain extremely fast and how you did that before. Ideally ./ in Textile Engineering /Mechanical Engineering /Robotics Engineering

You see the line as one system. You can explain why a decision at the cutting table shows up as a defect at the hem and you can put a number on it.

Automation mechanical engineering and robotics from your own hands. You will be in the workshop at the machine with fabric in your hands.

High cadence quick decisions 80 % information is enough to act. And at the same time calm because a team that is rushed stops iterating and starts hiding problems. Urgency without panic.

You would rather build a rough prototype this week than write a specification.

A core problem of our line is unsolved. You must be able to work decide and lead a team without knowing whether it will work and to stop a line of work honestly when the evidence says stop.

Proven experience leading engineers. People stay and grow under you. You give direct feedback and help them grow.

Budgeting cost models estimate quality runway awareness. You know what your decisions cost per month.

German and English both negotiating levels. The team is international; our suppliers and machine builders are largely German-speaking.

Berlin on site. This is a hardware company the work happens at the machine. We do not run this role remotely.

• You want to lead technology from a laptop. The line is physical and so is this job.

• You need consensus before you move.

• You want certainty about the outcome. Nobody can give it to us including you.

• True decision-making autonomy in your area including the freedom to make mistakes.

• A budget for tools and materials so the work can be done properly.

• Short lines of communication direct contact with the founder and industry partners.

• Full support and a proper hand-over from the current CTO.

1. Screening call 30 minutes: your credentials our challenge our expectations.

2. A case study in our workshop: you see the real state talk to the team and work through the cost model and the roadmap with us.

3. References from engineers who reported to you and from people you reported to.

4. Dinner with the team and the founder.

5. Decision within one week after the workshop day.

Submit your application with everything that shows what you have built: photos drawings a repository logs. We dont need a cover letter. Three sentences on why this problem interests you are worth more. Without proof of what you have built we will not review the application.