VP of Software Engineering
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JobgetherDefense and National Security
Remote work environment within the United States.Full-TimeVp
Salary230,000 - 275,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceSoftware EngineeringLLM
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience leading software delivery for U.S. government customers.
- Strong command of modern AI practices, including LLMs, RAG, agentic frameworks, and AI governance.
- Proven experience building and scaling engineering organizations and defining operating models.
- Experience owning delivery economics, including cost, staffing, utilization, and business cases for investment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage executive-level customer and cross-functional relationships.
- Experience setting technology strategy, architecture direction, and engineering priorities.
- Strong business judgment and decision-making ability in ambiguous environments.
- Preferred: Experience in defense, national security, or highly regulated environments.
- Preferred: Experience contributing to federal software capture and proposals.
- Preferred: Experience delivering software used by field-based or operational teams.
- Preferred: Active U.S. government security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and scale the software engineering organization, with accountability for delivery, quality, security, reliability, operational performance, and customer outcomes.
- Define and implement an engineering operating model that evolves the organization from project-based execution toward outcome-based ownership.
- Define and execute the organization-wide AI strategy, incorporating AI capabilities into customer products and internal workflows.
- Own delivery of awarded government software contracts, including scope, schedule, technical quality, staffing, costs, and utilization.
- Represent engineering and AI capabilities with government customers during delivery reviews and technical discussions.
- Establish the technology strategy and architecture roadmap for customer-facing, internal, and field-deployed systems.
- Partner with growth teams on federal software opportunities by shaping technical approaches, staffing models, and pricing inputs.
- Partner closely with executive leadership, product, operations, finance, and security teams to align technology priorities with business requirements.
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