Most public offices he could run for would put him in a generalist position, with various public facing and non-technical aspects that he is not suited to or qualified to handle. I want him to be able to completely and wholly run the show for just his one narrow specialty.

This isn't an option at all because our institutions don't adapt to the territory we often find ourselves in. We have a political alignment problem that exacerbates the technical alignment problems.

I would like to have something like the concept of senators, but not as location-based representatives, who are strictly assigned nothing more than to lead senate committees related to issues that we separately apportion funds and power to via direct democracy.