Top VP of Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of Extreme Networks’ wireless hardware and software portfolio, including access points, controllers, and cloud-managed platforms. Oversees distributed hardware, firmware, software, and RF engineering teams; manages roadmaps, budgets, vendors, compliance, and executive communications. Drives scalable product delivery, engineering quality, cloud networking, AI adoption, and innovation in Wi-Fi, private wireless, and cellular convergence.

Leads research and development across multiple product companies, driving AI-enabled and agentic software delivery, technical roadmaps, release execution, product quality, security, modernization, and engineering standards. Owns R&D budgets, resource allocation, executive reporting, organizational development, and customer-facing technology strategy. The role also guides platform migration, legacy modernization, AI governance, regulatory compliance, and cross-functional coordination across public safety and justice software portfolios.

Lead Nightfall’s distributed engineering organization across the Bay Area and Bangalore. Own architecture, delivery, engineering processes, technical strategy, team development, and collaboration with Product and executive leadership. Remain hands-on with architecture and complex technical challenges while building a high-performing engineering culture. Champion secure development, data protection, incident response, root cause analysis, and scalable software delivery in a fast-moving B2B SaaS environment.

Own the technical strategy, architecture, delivery, and engineering team for a core business domain. Build complex production systems spanning areas such as AI, energy trading, retail, real-time generation and demand modeling, data pipelines, and customer-facing applications. Hire and lead engineers, establish team standards, make prioritization decisions in an unstructured environment, collaborate with the CTO and business stakeholders, and remain hands-on with challenging technical problems.

Leads end-to-end development and commercialization of sophisticated electromechanical consumer products, including design, engineering, China-based sourcing, manufacturing, NPI, quality, validation, supplier development, and product economics. Builds multidisciplinary teams and partner networks, oversees EVT through mass production, improves reliability and manufacturability, manages COGS and tooling, and drives product innovation for Freebird’s grooming portfolio.

Leads US application engineering across public and private sector engagements, building and scaling high-performing technical teams. Oversees end-to-end delivery of AI and software programs on the Symmetri Platform, ensuring quality, profitability, reusable components, and client value. Partners with Product to shape roadmaps, supports GTM activities and business development, develops senior client relationships, and drives innovation, technical excellence, talent development, and scalable delivery practices.

Lead Salesforce QA by designing and executing test plans for declarative and programmatic Salesforce features, integrations, and APIs. Develop automated tests (Copado Robotic Testing), perform integration, regression, functional and data validation testing across Salesforce and external MySQL systems, collaborate with developers and product owners, improve QA processes, and support multi-org Salesforce setups.

Leads and scales software engineering teams developing marketing technology, customer acquisition platforms, and digital experiences. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, architecture, CRM and marketing automation integrations, lead management, analytics, experimentation, website optimization, vendor management, and engineering team mentorship. Partners with Marketing, Product, Sales, and Analytics to improve lead generation, conversion, scalability, reliability, and speed to market.

Leads AmeriSave’s enterprise software engineering organization and technology strategy across marketing, sales, operations, automation, AI, and enterprise platforms. Oversees engineering leaders, modernization, architecture, governance, scalability, security, reliability, delivery excellence, and organizational growth. Partners with executives on technology investments, manages budgets and resources, and builds high-performing engineering teams while driving innovation and measurable business outcomes.

Executive leader unifying Platform Product and Engineering to scale a B2B SaaS platform. Owns technical roadmap, multi-cloud architecture, AI/GenAI integration, developer experience, data pipelines, security and FedRAMP compliance, delivery predictability, and platform-led revenue growth while driving metrics-driven operational excellence.

Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing mission-critical defense and intelligence software from satellite imagery and APIs. Owns architecture, data models, AI/ML integration, deployment pipelines, system reliability, SLAs, and ITAR/EAR compliance. Partners with product and executive leadership to deliver geospatial analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and agentic workflows across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.

Lead Riot's multi-discipline data center engineering organization (mechanical, electrical, controls), set technical standards and QA/QC, approve designs at key milestones, oversee consultants and vendors, develop engineering talent, and represent engineering in cross-functional and executive decision-making.

The VP of Engineering will set technical strategy, lead the applied AI roadmap, build and scale the engineering organization, architect core and deployment platforms, and personally ship production code. The role requires experience building complex software from zero to one, leading high-performance engineering teams, and delivering enterprise-grade LLM systems. Familiarity with large-scale industrial systems and customers is preferred.

Looking for senior engineering leaders with ownership experience in high growth startup or tech companies for multiple portfolio companies.

Leads architecture, delivery, production operations, reliability, modernization, and engineering organization across three regulated product lines. Establishes technical standards, governs infrastructure and CI/CD, owns SLOs and incident improvement, advances federated data and governed AI capabilities, and modernizes clinical and diagnostic platforms. Manages distributed teams across India and Serbia, develops leadership depth, makes architecture decisions, reviews code and infrastructure, and partners with security, compliance, quality, product, customers, funders, and auditors.

The VP of Software at Fellow will lead and scale the software engineering organization, set the technical direction for embedded and cloud systems, and ensure high-quality product delivery and development processes.

The VP of Engineering will own Scoutible's technical roadmap, manage engineering teams, develop SaaS platforms, and communicate technical vision.

The VP Engineering will lead the engineering team, oversee product development for the dating app, manage resources, and ensure high app quality and scalability.

Leads Counterpart’s engineering organization, technical vision, AI-native development strategy, infrastructure, engineering operations, and people strategy. Oversees resource allocation, engineering standards, delivery quality, reliability, observability, security, and regulatory compliance. Partners with executive leadership, product, investors, and the board while managing hiring, performance, compensation, and talent development across a distributed engineering team.

Lead a ~30-person engineering org building highly-correct, scalable billing infrastructure. Coach managers and senior ICs, build leadership bench, set technical strategy, partner with product and GTM, and establish lightweight processes and foundations for growth.

Lead the engineering organization and technical strategy while remaining hands-on across web, mobile, backend, infrastructure, architecture, and AI. Own the technical roadmap, design scalable production systems, establish engineering standards, mentor and grow engineers, and drive AI-assisted development. Partner with Product and executive leadership to balance speed, reliability, security, scalability, and quality while building systems with Golang, TypeScript, and GCP.

Lead a global Mission Control team monitoring and resolving system failures, direct incident response, implement technical service strategies, improve operational efficiency, drive observability and AI Ops adoption, and mentor senior technical staff to ensure uptime for critical transaction systems.

As VP of Engineering, you'll define technical vision, lead engineering teams, drive execution, and foster a high-performance culture to support growth.

As VP of Software Engineering, you'll lead software and robotics teams, ensuring alignment with product goals while driving engineering excellence in a rapidly scaling environment.

The Vice President will lead engineering teams for the commercial data platform, drive strategic data initiatives, and collaborate across functions to enhance data reliability and governance.