Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kadence is a global enterprise technology company building state-of-the-art legal AI products. The VP Engineering, AI Agents role is a senior leadership position responsible for leading a large engineering team to build, scale, and operate the core AI agent platform, working closely with product leadership to shape the roadmap and deliver enterprise-grade AI agent systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering organization responsible for the company’s core AI agent platform
- Own the architecture, delivery, and reliability of production-grade agentic systems
- Build and scale infrastructure for agent runtime, tool use, customization, and integrations
- Oversee platform areas including scalability, reliability, authentication, authorization, and memory optimization
- Partner closely with product leadership on roadmap, prioritization, and customer-facing outcomes
- Build, develop, and lead senior engineering teams across platform, infrastructure, and applied AI product engineering
- Ensure the platform is reliable, observable, secure, and capable of supporting enterprise customers
- Help set the technical direction for one of the company’s most important AI product areas
Skills
- Deep experience building or leading teams building production GenAI or AI agent systems
- Strong engineering leadership across platform, infrastructure, or product-facing AI systems
- Experience operating at meaningful scale, both technically and organizationally
- Strong product partnership and the ability to shape roadmap, not just execute against it
- Experience with scalable infrastructure, runtime systems, distributed systems, or AI platform components
- A track record of building reliable, secure, enterprise-grade software products
- The ability to lead senior engineers and technical leaders in a fast-moving environment
- Clear technical judgment and the communication skills to work with product, design, research, and executive stakeholders
- Profiles that combine startup pace with prior big-tech scale exposure will be especially relevant
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