Aldea · 1 day ago
Vice President of Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expAldea is building frontier AI infrastructure and is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead their engineering function. This role involves shaping the engineering organization, establishing execution systems, and partnering with the CTO and Product teams to drive productization of AI models and APIs.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareSpeech Recognition
Responsibilities
Define Aldea’s engineering strategy across infrastructure, training, inference, and productization
Partner with research to translate model breakthroughs into productionized systems and customer-ready APIs
Own architectural decision-making for distributed systems, GPU scheduling, model runtime, latency optimization, and reliability
Implement scalable engineering processes: sprint structures, planning cadences, QA workflows, release management, and on-call rotations
Build clarity around readiness criteria, testing windows, and deployment gates for all model and infra releases
Ensure engineering velocity remains high while improving production environment stability
Build and lead a high-density engineering organization across infrastructure, full-stack, data, and model operations
Recruit, mentor, and level senior engineers who thrive on new ideas and innovation
Create growth paths, performance expectations, and engineering career ladders
Partner deeply with Product on roadmap, release sequencing, and prioritization
Work closely with Research on integration pipelines, evals, and production-readiness reviews
Align with BD on customer-critical features, SLAs, timelines, and implementation viability
Lead initiatives for security, observability, model monitoring, and incident response
Maintain compliance posture suitable for enterprise and developer customers
Ensure uptime, scalability, and performance meet or exceed SLOs
Qualification
Required
Expert in distributed systems, large-scale ML infrastructure, model serving, and cloud architecture
Comfortable choosing between building, buying, or hybridizing foundational infra
Experienced with GPU orchestration, caching, batching, streaming, and low-latency inference
Hands-on, principled, and rigorous — you set a high bar for clarity, communication, and quality
Thrives in ambiguity and treats it as a design challenge
Transparent and low-ego; you collaborate with research, engineering, and product as equals
Strategic thinker who still enjoys diving into code, design reviews, and architectural critiques
10+ years in engineering roles with 5+ in leadership
Has built and scaled systems to millions of requests, or high-complexity AI infra in a research org
Experience leading senior/staff+ engineers and building high-performance cultures
Preferred
Background in foundational model teams, inference teams, or ML infra is a strong plus
Company
Aldea
Aldea builds AI voice and language technology with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversational interfaces.
11-50 employees
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