VP of Platform Engineering

About the role

You own the platform-engineering half of the org — the AI-native core that everything runs on: the Intelligence domain (agent runtime, knowledge / retrieval, evals, the data flywheel), Connectivity (integrations, channels, computer-use / actions-beyond-APIs), Data & Fraud, Assemble (the agent-authoring platform), and the cross-pillar infrastructure. This is the AI-native specialist seat: the leader must be deep in agents, LLM orchestration, and the infra that makes them reliable at scale, and must build the platform org and its quality bar.

What You Will Own

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years engineering; 4–6 in leadership at high-growth startups / scale-ups; scaled a platform / infra team through a funding transition.
• Domain commonality (required): AI / agentic systems, LLM / ML infrastructure, or conversational / voice AI at production scale working on the platform.
• PREFERRED: 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.
• Still technical — reviews PRs, makes architecture calls, holds their own with a Staff / Chief Engineer.

Compensation Range

$400K - $500K