VP Engineering, AI Robotics Platform

UK (remote) – £130K + Stock (With flex for the right person)

I’m partnering with a fast-growing AI robotics company hiring a VP Engineering.

Their software runs on robots at customer sites and on a cloud platform on AWS. They’re scaling from around 70 robots to 1,000+ in the next two years, and they need someone to make releases fast and safe as the fleet grows.

The challenge: Robots can’t all update at once, so the cloud has to keep working with a mix of software versions in the field. You’ll bring robot and cloud releases into one process and move the team towards daily deployments.

What you’ll do

• Lead about 25 engineers through four chapter leads (robotics, backend, frontend, AI)
• Own release, versioning, staged rollouts and rollback
• Reduce incidents as the fleet grows
• Guide technical direction, including a Kubernetes migration

What they’re looking for

• You’ve led a real move to faster, safer releases and can show the numbers
• Experience with versions you don’t control (OTA updates, mobile, on-prem, connected devices) is a big plus
• Still technical, with AWS and Kubernetes ideally
• 10–15 years’ experience, often from DevOps or platform. Heads of Engineering ready to step up are welcome
• Robotics or IoT is a bonus, not a must

Why it’s exciting: a live product, real revenue, a direct line to the technical founder, and a rare chance to build fleet-scale engineering for AI robots.

Interested? Message me for a confidential chat.