Head of AI Platform Engineering & Scale

Mission.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity package

Job summary

Mission.dev, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company, seeks a VP of Engineering to lead the platform engineering organization and own the technical roadmap for a core AI platform. You will balance high-level leadership with hands-on involvement in distributed systems and AI orchestration, partnering with the executive team to drive velocity, reliability, and architectural excellence.

You will shape the platform, oversee AI agents, LLM orchestration, and developer tooling, and guide

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
• 4+ years in a formal engineering leadership role managing teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related STEM field.
• Proven experience scaling platform or infrastructure organizations through significant revenue or headcount growth.
• Technical proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and cloud architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with production-scale AI/ML infrastructure or agentic systems.
• Ability to work on-site five days per week in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a high-performing platform engineering team to support organizational expansion.
• Define the technical strategy and architecture for the core AI platform and underlying infrastructure.
• Oversee development across AI agents, LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, and developer tooling.
• Ensure engineering velocity, reliability, and observability through hands-on problem-solving and architectural reviews.
• Partner with executive leadership to conceptualize and execute new product and platform initiatives.
• Establish engineering processes and cultural standards to maintain quality during rapid scaling.
• Manage production-scale AI operations across distributed systems and cloud architectures.

Skills

10+ years engineering

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

AI/ML infrastructure

Hands-on architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Cloud architecture

Job description

Mission.dev, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company, seeks a VP of Engineering to lead the platform engineering organization and own the technical roadmap for a core AI platform. You will balance high-level leadership with hands-on involvement in distributed systems and AI orchestration, partnering with the executive team to drive velocity, reliability, and architectural excellence.

You will shape the platform, oversee AI agents, LLM orchestration, and developer tooling, and guide