Pioneering Intelligence is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead a team of Principal Software Engineers and shape the technical strategy of an AI-native platform at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and life sciences. The role involves leading a team, setting technical strategy, and staying technically active while collaborating with visionary scientists, founders, and builders across Flagship's ecosystem.
Requirements
- 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 and understands how to build products that serve researchers
- Has hired and developed principal or staff-level engineers
- Can evaluate architectural decisions, identify risk in complex designs, and contribute meaningfully to the hardest engineering conversations
- Leads through clarity: sets direction, makes decisions, and communicates tradeoffs without requiring repeated alignment
- Builds teams, not just products: knows how to hire exceptionally, develop senior talent, and create conditions where strong engineers stay and grow
- Fluent in AI-native ways of working and comfortable leading a team that uses tools like Claude Code as a core part of their engineering practice
- Writers with the same precision they expect from their engineers: strategy docs, architectural reviews, and hiring rubrics that don't require a follow-up meeting
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Annual incentive program
- Retirement benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance