VP of Engineering Applications, Artificial Intelligence

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🕒 September 22

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $225k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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1 - 10 employees

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Next Step Systems is a national IT recruiting firm that specializes in placing a wide range of information technology professionals in permanent full-time positions across the U. S. Their expertise includes various disciplines such as programmers, software engineers, network engineers, cloud engineers, and SAP specialists. Established in 1995, the company is committed to quality and customer service, continually expanding its capabilities through strategic acquisitions, like the recent one of Parallel Partners, to enhance their service offerings to clients and job seekers.

📋 Description

• Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers • Set the architectural direction for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations • Ensure AI capabilities are integrated into the product with clear abstractions, predictable behavior, and graceful failure modes • Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to translate model capability into shippable product features • Make high-impact decisions across latency, cost, reliability, security, and user experience • Establish clear ownership boundaries across backend, mobile, and desktop to prevent architectural drift • Ensure production readiness through observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks, privacy, and cost controls • Balance speed and discipline by shipping quickly without compromising long-term system quality

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems • Artificial Intelligence (AI) experience required • Strong hands-on background building and shipping backend systems used in production • Experience delivering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered products, with a deep understanding of model integration trade-offs • Excellent system design skills across services, APIs, clients, and data flows • Comfort operating across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms, even if your depth is in one • Proven ability to make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity • A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, and learning from real-world usage • Low ego, strong judgment, and the ability to raise the technical bar for the entire applications organization • Must be willing to take a 60 minute coding assessment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Savings Plan Options • PTO

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