VP of Field Engineering & Enterprise AI Delivery

Pelico; Miami, Austin, Boston (FL, TX, MA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary benchmarked to your

Flexible, hybrid work model

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Learning & development budget

Opportunity to work with complex and全球

Job summary

Pelico is growing its Miami-based team and seeks a VP of Field Engineering to lead and scale the organization charged with turning Pelico’s technology into measurable outcomes for customers.

The role oversees Forward Deployed Engineering and Tech Delivery, partnering with global manufacturers to deploy AI-powered operational workflows in complex production environments. Hybrid work model and strategic leadership are core expectations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience leading technical customer-facing organizations within enterprise software, AI, infrastructure, data platforms, or industrial technology companies.
• Experience designing, building, shipping, and operating production-grade software systems end-to-end.
• Experience creating, deploying, and maintaining LLM-powered applications and AI agents in production environments.
• Experience building and owning data pipelines across the full data lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Pelico’s Field Engineering organization, bringing together Tech Delivery and Forward Deployed Engineering under unified leadership.
• Own senior technical customer relationships across enterprise accounts, partnering directly with IT executives, architects, and operational stakeholders.
• Oversee complex enterprise deployments and integrations across manufacturing, supply chain, and operational systems.
• Drive operational excellence across deployment quality, scalability, reliability, and customer technical success.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Customer Operations to ensure seamless delivery and continuous product improvement.
• Build scalable processes, tooling, and organizational structure to support rapid company growth and increasingly complex customer environments.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing technical leaders and customer-facing engineering teams.
• Act as a strategic escalation point for critical customer technical issues and complex implementation challenges.
• Support security, infrastructure, and compliance initiatives as the organization scales, including potential involvement in FedRAMP-related processes

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise software

AI deployments

Data pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Python

SQL

Docker

Apache Airflow

Communication

Tools

Docker

Apache Airflow

PostgreSQL

Job description

Pelico is growing its Miami-based team and seeks a VP of Field Engineering to lead and scale the organization charged with turning Pelico’s technology into measurable outcomes for customers.

The role oversees Forward Deployed Engineering and Tech Delivery, partnering with global manufacturers to deploy AI-powered operational workflows in complex production environments. Hybrid work model and strategic leadership are core expectations.