Key skills
Leadership
About this role
OpenInfer is hiring a VP of Engineering to lead their engineering organization as they scale their platform into widely deployed infrastructure. The role involves setting technical strategy, owning engineering execution, and driving integration with various partners in a fast-growing ecosystem.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering leadership. Own the engineering organization across Loom, Weave, Jean, and OpenClaw. Build the team, the operating cadence, the technical bar, and the culture. Recruit and retain world-class systems and infrastructure engineers
- Technical strategy. Co-author the multi-year technical roadmap with the CEO and CTO. Translate market signals, customer needs, and partner constraints into clear architectural direction and prioritized investment
- Delivery and quality. Run a high-velocity engineering org that ships infrastructure-grade software with the reliability, observability, and security standards expected by enterprise, on-prem, and sovereign customers
- Partner ecosystem integration. Lead the engineering side of our deepening relationships with silicon vendors, OEMs, hyperscalers, networking providers, and enterprise platforms. Own joint POCs, reference architectures, and the technical integration surface that makes OpenInfer the default orchestration layer wherever heterogeneous compute is deployed
- Customer-facing technical leadership. Be the senior engineering voice in customer and partner conversations. Translate field reality back into product and architecture decisions
- Cross-functional partnership. Work tightly with product, BD, GTM, and operations. Help shape how we sell, support, and evolve the platform alongside its earliest design partners and Series A customers