VP, AI Platform Engineering - Scale, LLM Orchestration

interface.ai; United States; On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k

Daily meals

Commuter benefit

Wellness stipend

Equity

SF office

Parental leave

Mental health benefits

Mission-driven team

Job summary

Interface.ai is building the AI infrastructure for financial services with a production-ready platform that powers agentic AI and conversational AI for credit unions and community banks. You’ll own the platform-engineering half of the org, leading the AI-native core domains and building a scalable, reliable platform while still coding as a player-coach alongside Bruce on architecture.

The role focuses on AI/agentic systems, LLM infrastructure, and production-grade engineering, with a strong

Qualifications

• AI / agentic systems, LLM / ML infrastructure, or conversational / voice AI at production scale working on the platform.
• ex-founder who scaled an AI-native / platform startup (strong preference, not a bar).
• Deep AI engineering fluency—how LLMs work, how to build reliable agentic systems on them, what 'agentic AI' means at the infra level.
• Hands-on platform background—distributed systems, API design, cloud architecture, production AI ops.
• Production-scale TypeScript and/or Python.

Responsibilities

• Org design & growth for the platform domains — build and scale the platform / AI / infra team and its standards.
• The agentic & conversational AI platform — LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, evals, and integration / computer-use infrastructure.
• Velocity & quality — the tooling, eval gates, and reliability practices every domain depends on.
• AI-native engineering culture — frontier tools as standard; an engineering harness that makes every engineer 10×.
• Eng/ops excellence — incident response, observability, reliability targets; partner Bruce on architecture and Srinivas on product.

Skills

AI/agentic systems

LLM infrastructure

Conversational AI

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud architecture

Production AI ops

TypeScript/Python

Education

BS/BA in CS

MS/PhD a plus

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Interface.ai is building the AI infrastructure for financial services with a production-ready platform that powers agentic AI and conversational AI for credit unions and community banks. You’ll own the platform-engineering half of the org, leading the AI-native core domains and building a scalable, reliable platform while still coding as a player-coach alongside Bruce on architecture.

The role focuses on AI/agentic systems, LLM infrastructure, and production-grade engineering, with a strong