Engineering Full-Time

VP of Platform Engineering (US)

Interface AI • Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Company

Interface AI

Annual salary

$400k – $500k/yr

Location

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Listed

8d ago

Experience:: 10 to 16 years
Workplace:: 5 days in-office at 44 Montgomery St (21st floor), Financial District, San Francisco
Equity:: Competitive equity

On-site in Financial District, San Francisco, CA.

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About this Role

We are looking for a VP of Platform Engineering with 10+ years of experience to own and scale the AI-native platform core at a profitable, Series A agentic AI company serving hundreds of financial institutions. This is a player-coach role, you'll build and lead the platform engineering org while staying hands-on in the code, partnering directly with the CTO and CEO on architecture, product releases, and new initiatives.

What you need

10+ years of engineering experience with 4, 6 years in leadership; must have scaling experience (revenue, funding stages, team growth)
Production-scale experience in AI/agentic systems, LLM/ML infrastructure, or conversational/voice AI, working on the platform side
Hands-on and still technical, must be actively coding, reviewing PRs, and making architecture calls (not a pure people manager)
Startup experience strongly preferred (Series A, D); open to strong VP-level candidates from big tech if they show exceptional career trajectory
Must be on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week; BS/BA in Computer Science required

What will you be doing?

Managing and growing the existing platform engineering team (~4 engineers today, expanding) while remaining deeply hands-on in code and architecture
Working directly with the CEO and CTO daily on product releases and new platform initiatives being built from scratch
Owning the AI-native platform core end-to-end, agent runtime, LLM orchestration, retrieval systems, evals, integrations, and the agent-authoring platform
Driving velocity, quality, and reliability across all platform domains including tooling, eval gates, and observability
Scaling the platform org and its engineering culture through the company's next stage of growth

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The listing gives the location as Financial District, San Francisco, CA. 5 days in-office at 44 Montgomery St (21st floor), Financial District, San Francisco.