VP of Platform Engineering

Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.

We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day is finally available to the people running the project.

Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.

Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.

Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. We think the systems we're building are the operating system for how the physical world gets built, and will unlock a fundamentally different way of respect for our workforce. One where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both futures start with the same foundation.

We're hiring our first VP of Platform Engineering to lead the engineering organization at Ironsite.

You'll own the technical direction, execution, and growth of the entire engineering team as we scale from ~20 engineers today to well over 100 in the next 18 to 24 months. Every function that ships code at Ironsite reports up through you: platform, mobile, infrastructure, and the engineering coordination with our hardware and research teams. Your job is to make sure the engineering org can deliver the technical foundation for what Ironsite is becoming.

You'll partner directly with our CTO on the broader technical strategy of the company, with product on what we build and why, and with the founding team on how engineering fits into every major business decision. You'll set the technical bar across the entire engineering org through architectural decisions, code reviews, hiring calibration, and the standard of judgment you bring to every conversation.

This is a leadership role, not an IC role. Your primary job is building and leading the engineering organization. But you're the kind of leader who is genuinely in the code every week, reviewing PRs across teams, contributing to architectural decisions at the design level, and shipping code alongside your engineers when the work calls for it. The best VPs of Engineering never lose the technical muscle that got them here. You review, you build, you lead, and you make sure the engineering org gets stronger every quarter.

Every category-defining company had an engineering leader who was the reason the technology actually worked. Not the person who managed the team from a distance, but the person who was in the code every week, set the technical bar through their own work, made the hard architectural calls, and made sure the team got stronger every quarter.

Ironsite is at that moment. We have the product, the customers, the funding, and a founding team that's already earned the right to scale. What we need now is the VP of Engineering who is going to build the engineering organization that ships the intelligence layer for the physical world.

If you've led engineering teams at high-growth companies, still write and review code every week, and want to build the org that shapes what Ironsite becomes over the next decade, we want to talk.

The base pay range for this role is $300,000 – $375,000 per year.