Founder(CTO)

**Who We Are** ATUM is a Singapore deep-tech venture builder and investor. We build companies from breakthrough, IP-backed research, bringing capital, operational muscle, and partners from industry, VC, and government into every build. We've built and backed 15 ventures, and we invest in fast-scaling deep-tech with real fundamentals, not hype. **The Venture** Industrial surface preparation, stripping rust, paint, and coatings before recoating, is a dirty, hazardous, multi-billion-dollar global industry still dominated by sandblasting: abrasive grit, dust, silica, hazardous waste, confined-space risk. We're building the company to replace it, and the hardest, most interesting part of that is an engineering problem waiting for an owner. A laser system developed at A*STAR already does, in one pass, what sandblasting needs two steps for: it strips contamination _and_ generates the precise surface profile coatings need to bond, no grit, no chemicals, no waste. A working handheld prototype exists today, validated with paint majors, shipyards, refineries, and aerospace OEMs. The next step is the one that unlocks the mass market: a kilowatt-class system, polygon scanner, liquid cooling, a fully enclosed and sensorised beam path, that hits the throughput abrasive blasting delivers. That's the engineering challenge, and it's why we need a technical founder. The next version: a kilowatt-class system that matches the throughput of sandblasting while keeping that single-pass precision. That means real engineering, high-power laser integration, a fast polygon scanner, liquid cooling, a fully enclosed and sensorised beam path, all in something rugged enough for industry and simple enough for an operator. Solve it, and you just don't have a better tool, you have the product that retires an entire industrial method. **The Role** You'll be the founding CTO. You'll own the technology, taking it from a validated prototype to a deployable, manufacturable, field-ready product. You'll wor