VP, AI-Powered Platform Engineering

The Leadership Agency Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

The Leadership Agency Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a VP Engineering to lead the engineering organization across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.

You will drive the transformation of ML capabilities into reliable, fast, and intuitive user experiences while owning high-impact technical decisions and architectural integrity. You will build and mentor a senior applications team, set architectural direction for AI-powered workflows and APIs, and ensure production readiness with

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems in production.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products with model integration.

Responsibilities

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
• Lead and grow a senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
• Set architectural direction for AI-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.
• Ensure AI capabilities are integrated with clear abstractions and graceful failure modes.
• Partner with ML leadership to translate model capability into shippable features.
• Make high-impact decisions on latency, cost, reliability, security, and UX.
• Establish clear ownership across platforms to prevent architectural drift.
• Ensure production readiness: observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls.
• Balance speed and discipline—ship quickly while maintaining long-term quality.

Skills

Leadership

System design

Backend engineering

AI integration

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Job description

The Leadership Agency Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a VP Engineering to lead the engineering organization across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.

You will drive the transformation of ML capabilities into reliable, fast, and intuitive user experiences while owning high-impact technical decisions and architectural integrity. You will build and mentor a senior applications team, set architectural direction for AI-powered workflows and APIs, and ensure production readiness with