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title: 'Technical Founder at 10x Team'
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# Technical Founder at 10x Team

- **Company:** 10x Team
- **Location:** The, Netherlands
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/10xteam/155912cd-5704-4637-89f9-ca15320cd412

## Job description

Technical Co-founder / Founding Tech Lead Europe · Remote + on-site in the Netherlands · Start alongside your current work · Milestone-based equity

99 agents. One co-founder missing. There’s never been a better time to build. But building something is getting easier for everyone. The interesting question: what makes it worth building and hard to copy? Our conviction: data is the ultimate anti-commodity. Unique, useful data should be at the heart of every proposition we pursue. We're looking for a technical founder who gets excited about that. Someone to spot opportunities with me, challenge them, build them, and turn the strongest into businesses.

## What we’re getting into

We’ll explore customer problems within our network, select two propositions, and work towards product–market fit. You bring the technical depth and the urge to make things happen. We figure out the business together. Global ambition, a European base, and an eye on what we can learn from US speed, Chinese coordination, and Europe’s collective strengths.

You’ll probably enjoy this if…

- You think about the customer before the stack. Who has this problem? How painful is it? Will they pay? Then: how do we solve it?
- You’re already building. Show us something people use and tell us what you personally made happen.
- You use AI throughout your work. Our ambition is to spend 80% of our time on creativity, strategy, people, and delivery, with AI handling as much of the rest as possible.
- You ship, learn, and ship again. A customer using an imperfect solution teaches us something. Another month of polishing assumptions doesn’t.
- You can own the difficult bits. Infrastructure, security, data quality, permissions, reliability. AI can help; the judgment is yours.
- You don’t wait for a backlog. You can talk to a customer, identify the problem, and decide what to try next.
- You stay with the outcome. When something breaks or a customer gets stuck, you help get it sorted. You care what happens after deployment.

You should be comfortable moving between a customer conversation, a product decision, and a production issue. That’s the work.

The practical part You must be based in Europe and able to work together in the Netherlands regularly. We’ll combine remote work with in-person sessions. We’ll start alongside our current activities until we find product–market fit, with a clear weekly commitment agreed upfront. Bring urgency, follow-through, and room in your life to build. Remuneration starts with milestone-based equity, with milestones and ownership terms agreed before we begin. Cash compensation follows once revenue supports it.

Skip the polished cover letter. Show me something. Apply with three short answers and take the AI intake (rubric + interview, appr 15-20 min):

- What have you shipped? Share a link or demo, your contribution, and what happened when people used it.
- Where do you see a customer problem with a data advantage worth building around?
- Where are you based, how much time can you commit, and can you work together in the Netherlands?

Warm introductions from people who know your work are welcome. Please apply through this page so everything lands in one place.

If you’ve been looking for someone to build with, let’s see what we can make happen. -----------------------------------------

## NOTE

At 10x, there are two types of opportunities (inhouse-jobs at 10x excluded):

1. Traditional freelance missions These are regular project-based opportunities where the listed mission is the actual project you may work on.
2. AI Lab roles to get access to the 10x platform For AI Lab roles, we scout, review, and approve profiles for access to future project opportunities and once approved you will get access to the 10x platform. The missions listed for AI Lab roles are not traditional job openings. AI Lab work is often highly confidential as this exposes information of what an AI Lab is working on, and project requests are unpredictable. When an AI Lab request comes in, we often need to respond within 24 hours with suitable talent. Matching depends on the specific needs of each AI Lab project and your niche expertise. Once your profile is reviewed and approved, you may be matched to relevant AI Lab projects when suitable opportunities arise. This can happen within hours, but it may also take months, depending on the researchers at the AI labs and their project needs.

## About 10x Team

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 10x Team is a European-first platform that assesses, trains, and activates verified professionals (10x-ers) for expert-in-the-loop AI model evaluation, fractional work, and AI fluency building.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $1.1M in seed round led by Maikel Lobbezoo in May 2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Angelique Schouten (CEO) and Anton Zhelyazkov (Co-founder & Tech Lead) [10x.team](https://10x.team/about-us/)

## Core Business
- Primary industries: AI talent platform / human intelligence layer / professional services for AI model evaluation and training.
- Target customers: AI labs, enterprise companies, and regulated sectors (finance, legal, healthcare) that need verified European domain experts for model evaluation, human feedback, and fractional AI-native work. Also serves professionals (B2B talent marketplace).
- Mission: "To increase AI fluency and activate verified human intelligence so companies can work better with AI; and AI can learn from people who know what good looks like." [10x.team](https://10x.team/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **[10x Platform – Assess. Train. Activate.]**: A three-step system for professionals and companies.
  - **Assess**: AI-readiness assessments, domain judgment tests, and identity verification (eIDAS2-ready) to measure AI fluency and reasoning quality.
  - **Train**: 10x AI Academy – learning paths to turn professionals into AI-ready operators, evaluators, and domain trainers.
  - **Activate**: Marketplace connecting verified European experts with AI labs and companies for model evaluation, edge-case generation, human feedback, and fractional consulting (e.g., Fractional CISO, Fractional CFO). [10x.team](https://10x.team/)
- **AI Trainer & Expert-in-the-Loop Services**: Freelance roles (8-20 hrs/week) for domain specialists (healthcare, legal, PR, growth, compliance, etc.) to evaluate models, create prompts, and provide domain calibration. Listed on their careers page. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/10xteam)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $1.085M (Seed round, 2024). Headcount of 25 employees (+261.5% year-over-year growth). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/10x-team)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor: Maikel Lobbezoo (angel/seed). Also mentioned: Wired (Top 100 hottest European startup), MT Sprout, Dutch Financial Times, De Financiele Telegraaf. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over 60,000 European professionals have applied to 10x. [10x.team](https://10x.team/)
  - Active job postings: 17 (with quarterly posting growth +6.2%). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)
  - Operates in 8 countries (Netherlands, Germany, Czechia, Greece, UK, Bulgaria, Finland, Italy). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)

## Competitive Advantages
- **European-first trust layer**: Identity verification aligned with eIDAS2 and European Digital Identity Framework; GDPR-conscious workflows for handling sensitive AI data. [10x.team](https://10x.team/)
- **Curated, not crowdsourced**: Focus on senior domain experts (medior/senior) rather than anonymous low-cost workers – higher quality human signal for AI model improvement.
- **Built for regulated sectors and AI labs**: Offers compliance (GDPR, DORA, NIS2) and confidentiality – suitable for finance, legal, healthcare, and enterprise AI.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the European expert-in-the-loop network for frontier AI labs and enterprises.
- Increase AI fluency through the 10x AI Academy and internal AI champions programs.
- Strengthen identity verification and trust infrastructure for remote expert work (eIDAS2-ready).
- Target companies moving from generic freelance platforms to verified, domain-calibrated human intelligence.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: 10x Team is a fully remote company based in the Netherlands with employees across Europe. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/10x-team)
- **Culture**: Values include "Caring" (giving every candidate a fair shot), "Brave-hearted" (making humans unstoppable, not replacing them), and "Ambitious" (data-driven, built for scale). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)
- **Work style**: Flexible freelance/fractional engagements (8-20 hrs/week) – ideal for professionals seeking side missions or AI project work while maintaining a primary career.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work with leading AI labs, help shape frontier models, and join a community of verified European experts. Featured as a Top 100 hottest European startup by Wired.
- **Engineering/operations**: Small but rapidly growing team (25 employees, +261.5% YoY), allowing significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [10x.team – Main website](https://10x.team/)
2. [10x.team – About us](https://10x.team/about-us/)
3. [LinkedIn – 10x Team](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10xteam)
4. [Built In – 10x Team](https://builtin.com/company/10x-team)
5. [Ashby Jobs – 10x Team careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/10xteam)

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