Top VP of Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Owns final technical authority for US spacecraft programs, including system architecture, mission-specific customization, payload integration, technical risk, milestone reviews, and cross-disciplinary engineering standards. Builds and leads the US engineering organization, aligns US and European teams, develops reusable spacecraft capabilities, and represents technical solutions to sophisticated commercial, civil, and defense customers. The role is primarily on-site in Los Angeles with travel to customers and European headquarters.

Leads the engineering organization for Polaris, overseeing strategy, architecture, people, delivery, quality, reliability, security, budgets, and vendor relationships. The VP scales engineering leadership, develops platform capabilities, advances AI-assisted development, manages cloud and data infrastructure, partners on product strategy, and ensures resilient, secure, observable systems. The role requires executive judgment, deep SaaS and cloud architecture expertise, and the ability to support critical incidents and complex technical decisions.

Leads globally distributed software engineering teams, setting technical strategy, architecture, delivery processes, and engineering standards for AWS-based SaaS products. Partners with Product, Data Analytics, and Customer Success, develops engineering talent, manages vendors, drives continuous improvement, and promotes AI-assisted development practices. The role requires extensive software engineering and executive leadership experience, Ruby on Rails and asynchronous architecture expertise, AWS scalability knowledge, and experience managing remote global teams.

Lead AMP's multidisciplinary engineering organization to define and execute technology vision and roadmap. Responsible for scaling teams across hardware, software, AI, and infrastructure; driving product development, quality systems, and reliable deployments; partnering with execs and cross-functional teams on budgets, prioritization, and metrics; recruiting and mentoring leaders; and balancing short-term delivery with long-term investments to create business value.

Own engineering delivery, organizational design, security, infrastructure, fraud initiatives, incident escalation, and cross-functional prioritization. Build scalable team structures, propose hiring plans, represent engineering to executives, and oversee infrastructure and data decisions. The role requires substantial engineering leadership experience, hands-on backend or full-stack development experience, and a track record of scaling engineering organizations at startups or scaleups.

Leads Clever’s engineering organization and technical strategy, overseeing architecture, execution, production systems, organizational design, recruiting, and leadership development. The role remains technically hands-on through architecture and code reviews, debugging, production support, and direct contribution. It also drives AI-assisted engineering, modernization of legacy systems, engineering productivity, and close collaboration with Product and executive leadership.

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.

Executive engineering leader responsible for shaping product and technology strategy, aligning the executive team, communicating direction across a distributed organization, and leading engineering managers, directors, and individual contributors through rapid AI-driven change. The role requires technical credibility, strategic judgment, strong written and verbal communication, and experience scaling distributed engineering organizations while maintaining performance and culture.

Leads Covera Health’s approximately 30-person Engineering, AI, and Platform/IT organization. Owns architecture, engineering standards, technical execution, reliability, security, data platforms, and production systems while partnering with the CPTO on strategy. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, development of engineering managers, cross-functional collaboration, recruitment and retention, and oversight of scalable healthcare data and AI platforms. The leader will remain involved in architecture reviews, technical decisions, complex data challenges, and critical production incidents.

Provides executive leadership for software engineering across regulated clinical, patient-facing, platform, and device-integrated systems. Oversees delivery, scalability, quality, compliance, engineering operations, CI/CD modernization, AI-assisted development, and organizational growth. Leads engineering executives and partners cross-functionally across product, clinical, regulatory, quality, security, machine learning, and IT. Requires extensive leadership of Software as a Medical Device products through development, validation, regulatory approval, commercialization, and post-market support.

Leads global platform engineering for identity and access, portals, design systems, observability, monitoring, billing, and metering. Develops enterprise cloud and modernization strategy, establishes platform standards, drives adoption across business units, and oversees a 100+ person organization. Partners with senior executives globally to align shared platform investments with business outcomes, security, resiliency, innovation, and operational efficiency.

Lead the engineering organization for BlueCat’s Network Observability product line. Own technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, and operational excellence for data-intensive network monitoring platforms spanning SaaS and on-premise deployments. Build AI-driven observability capabilities, modernize legacy systems, establish engineering standards, and develop distributed teams. Partner with product, executive leadership, customers, sales, and support to achieve business goals and resolve strategic technical issues.

Leads global engineering teams and multiple EPM product lines through legacy modernization, SaaS and multi-tenant development, AI-enabled software delivery, customer-facing AI feature development, and operational excellence. Owns engineering strategy, quality, reliability, DORA outcomes, security, budgets, vendors, staffing, and organizational transformation while delivering reliable finance applications and cloud migrations.

Leads Oaktree’s global Network Engineering function, owning network architecture, strategy, resilience, security segmentation, cloud connectivity, capacity planning, budgets, vendors, and MSP operations. Manages and mentors network engineering teams, serves as the final escalation point for critical incidents, establishes engineering governance, and presents infrastructure strategy and investment priorities to senior executives. The role covers Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Arista, Azure, enterprise LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, and hybrid multi-cloud environments.

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 and scale the engineering organization, architect and operate a low-latency vision and perception platform, recruit and grow teams, establish engineering craftsmanship, and measure impact via detections, accidents averted, and lives saved.

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.

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.

The VP of Engineering, Vehicle leads the engineering team responsible for the development and operational readiness of space vehicles. Key duties include overseeing technical performance, budget management, and engineering leadership while ensuring the successful execution of vehicle programs, from design to production.

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.

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.

As VP of Engineering, you'll architect and oversee decentralized trading features, microservices, and DevOps while mentoring engineers and driving tech choices.

Lead the engineering vision for threat detection, architect scalable systems, foster community intelligence, and create a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

The VP Engineering will lead a large engineering organization, focusing on digital platforms for ecommerce, fan engagement, and data ecosystems, ensuring high-quality delivery of scalable systems and best practices.

Lead Release Management, QA, and DevOps to build an automation-first quality engineering framework, enforce release gates, drive platform reliability and CI/CD, and embed AI-assisted coding and testing across engineering teams for a regulated fintech environment.