Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

About Earthkeep Farmcommon

Earthkeep Farmcommon is reimagining what a data center can be. Instead of another windowless box that draws down the grid and gives nothing back, we're building vertically integrated, farm-integrated campuses that turn a data center's waste heat, CO2, and power into fuel for something that matters: thriving local agriculture, resilient jobs, and a genuinely lower-carbon way to power the AI economy. Every Earthkeep site is proof that computing and climate progress don't have to be at odds.

The model is proven, not theoretical: it was tested and validated on a pilot farm in Vermont. Earthkeep is now raising a Series A to build out its core leadership team, advance predevelopment and engineering on its first flagship site, and bring this model to more communities across the UK and US that deserve the jobs and investment that come with it.

Earthkeep is an early-stage company by design — several senior seats, including this one, are open right now, and the people who fill them won't just execute against a plan; they'll help prove that the next generation of data centers can be a climate asset, not a liability.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands (HQ) · Reports to: Founder/CEO · Type: Full-time, leadership team

Compensation: €150,000 base, plus meaningful equity

The role

This is a job for someone who wants their engineering decisions to move the needle on climate, not just optimize uptime. Earthkeep's CTO owns the technical architecture that makes the "data center + farm" model actually work — the systems, standards, and engineering judgment that turn a resource-sharing concept into a facility that a hyperscale or AI-compute tenant will sign a lease for, and that a greenhouse operator can actually run on the heat and CO2 it produces.

What you'll do

• Define Earthkeep's technical playbook for colocating data center and controlled-environment-agriculture infrastructure: power delivery, cooling, heat recovery, and CO2 capture/distribution.
• Act as Earthkeep's technical counterpart to specialized delivery partners (CHP engineering firms, data center construction partners, tenant technical teams), setting standards and holding the line on what Earthkeep owns versus what it contracts out.
• Lead technical diligence on prospective sites and technical due diligence from prospective tenants and investors.
• Build the technical roadmap for replicating the model across future sites in the UK and US, turning site #1's lessons into a repeatable design.
• Recruit and eventually lead a technical team as the company scales past its first flagship project.
• Build a pipeline of future projects: build and feed the funnel; seek and solicit future sites, screen with investment committee, etc.

What you bring

• Senior technical leadership experience in data centers, energy infrastructure, or industrial/process engineering — ideally with exposure to both power/cooling systems and a second, unrelated technical domain (agriculture, process heat, or similar), reflecting the hybrid nature of the role.
• Credentials: strong education in engineering, computer science, or related fields
• Comfort operating as a technical generalist and translator at an early-stage company, not just a specialist in one system.
• Experience working with or managing external engineering/construction partners on capital projects.
• Genuine interest in sustainability-driven infrastructure design, not just conventional data center delivery.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Amsterdam.

What you should expect

Speed and transparency in the hiring process:

• Send us your CV and a short cover letter on how your experience applies to this role.
• If you’re shortlisted, we’ll let you know within a week and set up a short video call — under an hour of your time.
• We’ll send you a hypothetical site’s technical setup — power, cooling, and heat-recovery design. Use your expertise to flag what would and wouldn’t work, and what you’d change. Under an hour of your time.

Trust and empowerment once you’re hired:

• Join a team of optimists who believe technology can do right by people and the planet at the same time.
• Flat leadership structure: the entire leadership team — CFO, CTO, CEO, and beyond — decides collectively on every project Earthkeep takes on, weighing the financial, ecological, and human impact together.

Looking forward to hearing from you - Team Earthkeep

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: €125.000,00 - €175.000,00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• technical: 5 years (Required)

Work authorization:

• Netherlands (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Amsterdam