Vice President, Engineering

The role

The Vice President of Engineering will lead a team of approximately five Principal Software Engineers. You will set technical strategy, contribute to architectural decisions, and manage resources across the portfolio.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of approximately five Principal Software Engineers
• Set technical strategy and architectural direction for the AI and digital platform
• Contribute to architectural reviews and design complex systems
• Hire exceptional engineers and develop their careers
• Represent engineering to product leadership and senior stakeholders
• Balance resources across all teams and projects
• Drive delivery by removing blockers and resolving cross-team dependencies
• Model and advance an AI-native engineering culture

Required qualifications

• Has led a team of senior individual contributors or principal-level engineers
• Has served as the technical authority on a complex, production-grade system
• Has built and scaled engineering organizations in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Has worked closely with scientific or domain-expert users
• Has hired and developed principal or staff-level engineers
• Technically credible at the system design level
• Leads through clarity
• Builds teams, not just products
• Fluent in AI-native ways of working
• Writes with precision

Nice to have

• Ideally in a lean, high-velocity organization where the team was small and the scope was large
• Ideally at a startup or within a high-autonomy team inside a larger organization

Benefits

• Equity
• Healthcare coverage
• Annual incentive program
• Retirement benefits
• Broad range of other benefits

About the company

Pioneering Intelligence builds the digital and AI foundation to accelerate the creation and growth of Flagship Pioneering's companies. Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies to transform human health, sustainability and beyond.