Head of Platform
VP of Platform Engineering leading the entire engineering org (platform, mobile, infrastructure) at an AI-powered construction tech startup, scaling from ~30 to 100+ engineers using React/TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.
- Compensation
- $300K–$375K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 12+ years of engineering experience
- At least 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles (Director, VP, or Head of Engineering)
- Deep hands-on technical expertise across React/TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS
- Track record of leading engineering organizations that scaled by orders of magnitude
- Demonstrated leadership managing teams of at least 20-50 people including managers
- Track record of shipping systems that scaled by orders of magnitude in throughput, users, or data volume
- Systems thinking spanning the full stack and the full org
- Ability to partner directly with technical founders
- Background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Nice to have
- First or founding VP of Engineering at a Series A or B startup
- Experience at a company combining hardware and software, or deploying software into industrial/field/physical-world environments
- Deep experience with data infrastructure, API design, third-party integrations, or real-time data and analytics
- History of raising the bar: promoting engineers from Senior to Staff, Staff to Principal, IC to Manager
- Experience shipping products for non-technical users in real-world conditions (mobile field applications, industrial software)
- AI-adjacent engineering experience, especially at the seams between research teams and production engineering
Full description
About Ironsite
Ironsite is building the intelligence layer for the physical world. We design our own wearable hardware, deploy it alongside craft workers, and transform a shift's footage into a next-morning report. Our internal team and purpose-built models label the data overnight and deliver actionable insights to superintendents by 5 AM.
We are accelerating the speed, efficiency, and predictability of construction, especially for complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects, including data centers, LNG facilities, sports stadiums, hospitals, and other large-scale developments, by training AI models on egocentric construction footage and labor productivity data. We are built with a pro-worker philosophy at our core: we believe technology should empower the workforce, not replace it. We're working to give craft workers and project leaders better visibility into what's happening on-site, while creating a system where the reality of construction and the chaos of each day are finally available to the people running the project.
Ironsite is deployed across several of the largest active construction projects in the country. To date, we've captured more than 100,000 hours of construction footage across seven states, now process thousands of hours of site activity every day, and maintain a worker opt-out rate below two percent. This is enabled by a workforce-first architecture that anonymizes devices, captures no audio, and never releases raw video.
Ironsite is backed by leading investors (8VC, South Park Commons, Saga Ventures) and prominent operators across technology and construction, including Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Leslie, Scott Wu, Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Russell Kaplan, and others, alongside over a dozen construction industry operators who have joined us as partners in building this.
Longer term, we believe Ironsite is the foundation for what construction becomes in the next decade. The systems we're building will be the operating system for how the physical world gets built. We see a future where craft workers are more valued, more visible, and better paid for the skill they bring, and where the industry finally has the intelligence layer that makes autonomous construction possible. Both start with the same foundation.
The Role
We're hiring our first Head of Platform to lead the team building Ironsite's platform, the product surface that turns our data into the intelligence construction teams act on every day.
You'll own the technical direction, execution, and growth of the platform engineering team as we scale from a small IC-heavy group into a full function over the next 18 to 24 months. The team you'll lead owns the dashboards project leaders open at 5 AM, the labor-management tools superintendents run their entire jobsite on, the mobile experience craft workers carry in their pocket, and the integration layer that connects Ironsite to the software the industry already lives in.