About GTCX Sovereign

GTCX partners with corridor authorities to deploy governed verification infrastructure across Africa.

GTCX prepares trade corridors with named leads, proof, tests, logs, review, and delivery records.

About this role

This role delivers reliable verification infrastructure, governed evidence flows, and practical operating outcomes across African corridors.

Role scope combines technical leadership, collaborative delivery, clear evidence standards, and practical corridor operating discipline.

What you might work on

• Leading an AI deployment for a major trade customer, from first conversation to production

• Every engagement follows the same discipline: capture at the source, package the evidence, verify against the assurance standard, and retain a reviewable clearance receipt.

• Setting the architecture and engineering standards the team builds within

• Make delivery tradeoffs with accountable evidence, clear operating constraints, and a durable record of each decision.

• Corridor data stays under sovereign control — your data, your jurisdiction, your rules of evidence.

• Working directly with customers to keep scope, timelines, and quality honest

You may be a fit if

• Lead significant verification engineering end to end, from governed evidence design through practical corridor operating delivery.

• Deployments are scoped, staffed, and measured against assurance metrics agreed with the operating authority, including visible operational receipts.

• Shared verification across borders, with per-state sovereignty guarantees, common evidence protocols, monitored custody, and PvP settlement rails.

• Use judgment to make tradeoffs, protect evidence quality, and keep consequential corridor decisions accountable and reviewable.

• You lead well, whether through architecture, through people, or both

• You're low ego, direct, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar

• Work on site in Nairobi when role delivery requires it.

Nice to have

• Experience in a regulated or high-reliability domain (trade, finance, legal)

• Experience shipping production AI or ML systems

• Background in customer-facing or forward-deployed engineering

• Experience growing engineers or running a small team

Benefits (available to Full-Time Employees)

Trade & Wellness

• Comprehensive trade, dental, and vision insurance

• Daily catered lunch and dinner

• Mental trade support and wellness coaching

• Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth

Growth & Development

• Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences

• Conference attendance budget for professional development

• Annual team offsite

• Academic collaboration opportunities

• Unlimited PTO

Our Core Values

1. Traders Win, We Win

   If traders aren't getting better outcomes, we haven't earned the right to scale. Every internal decision gets pressure-tested: does this make traders' lives better? If we can't draw the line, we question why we're doing it.

2. High Standards, High Care

   We hold a high bar for the team because traders are counting on us to get this right. But high standards only work with genuine investment in each other. You can take risks, admit mistakes, and challenge ideas—not despite our standards, but because of them.

3. Thoughtful Urgency

   We move fast by default, but speed without judgment is recklessness. The discipline is knowing which decisions are reversible vs. not. In trade AI, the companies that win will be fast everywhere they can be and careful everywhere they must be. We build the muscle to do both.

4. Intensely Measured

   We instrument trader outcomes, operator ROI, system performance, and verification accuracy. But data without action is surveillance. Every metric should have an owner, a threshold, and a response plan. If we're measuring something but never acting on it, we stop measuring it.

Who Builds With Us

• Low ego: Politics and territory don't interest you. The best ideas win, regardless of who has them.

• Direct: You say the hard thing, challenge ideas openly, and commit fully once decided.

• High agency: You thrive on trust rather than instruction. When you see something is broken, you fix it. You don’t file tickets and wait for someone else.

• Bar of excellence: Every engagement follows the same discipline: capture at the source, package the evidence, verify against the assurance standard, and retain a reviewable clearance receipt.

• Skeptical: You push back on rules that don’t make sense and question assumptions that haven’t earned their place.