Vice President, Engineering – Agent Core

Jobtailor; Zug; Vor Ort; CHF 200.000 - 260.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor in Zug, Switzerland is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Leader to define and drive the Agent Core engineering strategy. You will set technical direction for agent runtime infrastructure, AI intelligence pipelines, and the MCP-based customization platform.

You will lead and grow distributed engineering teams, assess talent, and champion reliability, security, and regulatory compliance across our AI platforms used by legal tech professionals.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in senior engineering leadership managing managers and distributed teams.
• Deep expertise building and scaling agentic AI systems, LLM-powered platforms, or AI infrastructure.
• Strong foundation in backend systems engineering, distributed systems, reliability, security, and developer platforms.
• Experience with agent orchestration, memory systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and MCP and function calling.
• Proven success influencing cross-functional product and platform strategy at VP/Director level.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and conviction to engineering teams and C-suite.
• Experience in legal tech or professional services technology preferred.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements in regulated industries (FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS) preferred.
• Experience building with or contributing to open agent standards such as MCP or A2A preferred.
• Public technical thought leadership via publications, conference talks, or open-source contributions preferred.

Aufgaben

• Define and execute the Agent Core engineering strategy.
• Set technical direction for agent runtime infrastructure, AI intelligence pipelines, and MCP-based customization platform.
• Lead and develop engineering managers and their teams across a globally distributed organization.
• Drive talent assessment, performance differentiation, and career development.
• Own reliability, scalability, and security of the agent runtime.
• Oversee user authorization flows, session and file storage interactions, memory pipelines, I18n infrastructure, and runtime optimization.
• Drive Agent Intelligence capabilities including core agent capabilities, multilingual quality, organizational knowledge management, and long-term memory systems.
• Build the Agent Customization platform for customer and partner custom skills, MCP tools, and third-party integrations.
• Collaborate with engineering, AI Platform, Product Management, Design, and Security teams.
• Establish best practices for AI system development, testing, observability, and responsible AI deployment in a regulated legal environment.
• Report directly to the Head of Engineering for CoCounsel Next.

Kenntnisse

Agent Orchestration

Memory Systems

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

MCP Tools

Function Calling

AI Infrastructure

Technical Thought Leadership

Performance Differentiation

Backend Systems Engineering

Distributed Systems

Compliance with FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS

Cross-Functional Product Strategy

Clear Communication

Influencing Stakeholders

Team Development

Open Agent Standards

Tools

Agent Runtime Infrastructure

I18n Infrastructure

Customization Platform

MCP Tools

Memory Systems

Jobbeschreibung

• Define and execute the Agent Core engineering strategy
• Set technical direction for agent runtime infrastructure, AI intelligence pipelines, and the MCP-based customization platform
• Lead and develop engineering managers and their teams across a globally distributed organization
• Drive talent assessment, performance differentiation, and career development
• Own reliability, scalability, and security of the agent runtime
• Oversee user authorization flows, session and file storage interactions, memory pipelines, I18n infrastructure, and runtime optimization
• Drive Agent Intelligence capabilities including core agent capabilities, multilingual quality, organizational knowledge management, and long-term memory systems
• Build the Agent Customization platform for customer and partner custom skills, MCP tools, and third-party integrations
• Collaborate with engineering, AI Platform, Product Management, Design, and Security teams
• Establish best practices for AI system development, testing, observability, and responsible AI deployment in a regulated legal environment
• Report directly to the Head of Engineering for CoCounsel Next

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years in senior engineering leadership managing managers and large distributed teams
• Deep expertise building and scaling agentic AI systems, LLM-powered platforms, or AI infrastructure in a production enterprise environment
• Strong technical foundation in backend systems engineering, distributed systems, reliability, security, and developer platforms
• Experience with agent orchestration, memory systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool-use patterns such as MCP and function calling
• Proven success influencing cross-functional product and platform strategy at the VP or Director level
• Ability to communicate with clarity and conviction from engineering teams to C-suite stakeholders
• Experience in legal tech or professional services technology preferred
• Familiarity with compliance requirements in regulated industries, such as FedRAMP, HIPAA, and CJIS, preferred
• Experience building with or contributing to open agent/tool standards such as MCP or A2A preferred
• Public technical thought leadership through publications, conference talks, or open-source contributions preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading engineering teams and developing AI systems, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security. Proficient in establishing best practices for AI system development and compliance in regulated environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Agentic AI Systems Development
• Senior Engineering Leadership
• Backend Systems Engineering
• Compliance with FedRAMP, HIPAA, CJIS
• Cross-Functional Product Strategy

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Agent Orchestration
• Memory Systems
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• MCP Tools
• Function Calling
• AI Infrastructure
• Technical Thought Leadership
• Performance Differentiation

Soft Skills

• Clear Communication
• Influencing Stakeholders
• Team Development

Industry Keywords

• Legal Tech
• Professional Services Technology
• Open Agent Standards
• Regulated Legal Environment

Tools & Technologies

• AI Intelligence Pipelines
• Agent Runtime Infrastructure
• Customization Platform
• User Authorization Flows
• Session Storage
• File Storage
• I18n Infrastructure
• Runtime Optimization