Vice President, Engineering

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