Vice President of Engineering

The Role

Fidelity Labs is building a new generation of enterprise AI products embedded in customer-facing experiences across Fidelity’s businesses. We are seeking a senior engineering leader to serve as the technical and engineering organizational owner of ARGOS—a foundational platform enabling safe, scalable, and compliant AI capabilities for millions of customers.

You will report directly to the Managing Director and collaborate with the senior leadership team, ensuring the ARGOS platform meets its ambitious goals. Our team thrives on determined efforts to successfully implement world-class technology solutions. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, platform architecture ownership, and engineering organization building.

Expertise And Skills You Bring

• 13+ years of software engineering experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams.
• Your expertise lies in crafting low-latency distributed systems, hands-on experience with LLMs, fundamental log management architectures, and navigating compliance in regulated industries.
• You've hired and managed teams of at least 15 engineers and possess deep AWS knowledge.
• You've leveraged modern technology stacks, including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS CDK CLI, and/or Golang, with a proven track record of delivering scalable solutions.
• Your ability to make high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information and document outcomes is outstanding.
• You provide clear, concise progress reporting to senior leadership, communicate risks, tradeoffs, and milestones with transparency and precision.
• You have a Bachelors or equivalent with 15+ years of experience or a Masters with 13+ years of experience in Computer Science, with an advanced degree or equivalent experience in ML/AI research as a plus.

The Team

We are Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments’ in-house fintech incubator with a mission to build new businesses to drive growth for Fidelity. We seek to shape the future of our industry by building new products and services to improve the lives of the diverse set of customers, businesses, and financial institutions we serve.

Fidelity Labs is a dynamic workplace that combines the best parts of startup life—building from scratch, adapting quickly, and moon-shot ambition—with the scale and stability of an industry leader. We provide a safe space for startup teams to explore new business ideas, quickly test them with customers, and scale the most promising concepts within an existing business unit, or as a new venture.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $140,000-285,000 USD per year. Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors. Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career.