Palm Venture Studios · 4 hours ago
Vice President of Engineering
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expPalm Venture Studios is seeking a dynamic, hands-on Vice President of Engineering with a proven track record of scaling engineering organizations within an early-stage startup environment. The role involves driving technical strategy, overseeing the architecture and deployment of an enterprise-grade platform, and leading the production rollout of novel AI solutions.
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Responsibilities
Define and execute the company's technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with product goals and business objectives. Translate product vision into a robust and scalable engineering strategy
Lead the development and maintenance of seamless, robust integrations with major enterprise platforms
Oversee the development, testing, and production deployment of agentic solutions. Implement best practices for MLOps, monitoring, and performance tuning of AI models in live environments
Serve as a leader who actively engages with the codebase and delivery process. This includes leading delivery sprints, performing code reviews, and actively involved in developing proofs of concept (POCs) to validate architectural decisions and set technical standards for the team
Recruit, mentor, and retain a distributed engineering team. Foster an engineering culture that balances rapid delivery, operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning
Establish SDLC processes, automate CI/CD pipelines, elevate QA standards, and develop incident response protocols to enable high velocity, availability and reliability of our platform
Navigate the inherent ambiguity and resource constraints of a startup environment. Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and technical debt
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software product development experience, include 5+ years of engineering leadership experience at a fast-paced, high-growth technology startup from early stage through Series A/B funding (or equivalent growth phase)
Build a high-performing team by hiring well, investing in people's growth, and creating conditions where strong engineers thrive
Deep technical expertise in building and managing enterprise-level integrations, APIs, and data synchronization across complex B2B software ecosystems
Proven experience building and deploying AI agents into production environments, including familiarity with MLOps principles and challenges specific to AI systems
Strong architectural background, proficient in modern technologies(e.g., Python, semantic search, vector DBs, GraphQL, queues, containers, Kubernetes, real-time data processing, Spark, Open Telemetry, Clickhouse)
Ability to switch effortlessly between solving immediate technical challenges and shaping long-term technical direction
Exceptional ownership skills driving on-time delivery of high-quality code in production while fostering a collaborative environment where engineers feel empowered to share diverse perspectives on solutions
Preferred
Experience leveraging or implementing RAG or MCP to integrate AI agent interactions with external tools and data sources is a strong advantage
Company
Palm Venture Studios
Palm Venture Studios offers turnaround capital for early-stage startups, focusing on human and planetary health.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Daniela Plattner
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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