VP of Engineering: AI Platform & Scalable Tech Leader

Terranova Talent Solutions; California; On-site; USD 280,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office San Francisco

Equity

Medical/Dental/Vision

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Terranova Talent Solutions is representing a fast-growing software company seeking a VP of Engineering to set technical direction, build a scalable team, and write production code alongside engineers.

The role is hands-on, reporting to the CEO, and focuses on AI roadmap, architecture, and delivering enterprise software built on large language models for customers in defense, energy, robotics, and manufacturing sectors.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build and scale software from zero to production.
• Experience leading engineering teams, from hiring to developing engineers.
• Hands-on experience designing and shipping enterprise software built on large language models.
• Bonus: prior work with industrial, manufacturing, or defense customers.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and AI roadmap for the company.
• Recruit, hire and grow a high-performing engineering team and scale it.
• Lead the architecture of the core platform and deployment systems at customer sites.
• Ship production code and uphold engineering quality standards.

Skills

Engineering leadership

LLMs / AI systems

Production code

Enterprise software

Tools

Rust

Python

TypeScript

React

Next.js

C#

AWS

Terraform

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Containerization

Security standards (CMMC/FedRAMP/ITAR)

Job description

Terranova Talent Solutions is representing a fast-growing software company seeking a VP of Engineering to set technical direction, build a scalable team, and write production code alongside engineers.

The role is hands-on, reporting to the CEO, and focuses on AI roadmap, architecture, and delivering enterprise software built on large language models for customers in defense, energy, robotics, and manufacturing sectors.