Vice President of Artificial Intelligence

Rise Technical is recruiting for an unnamed high-growth autonomous security and defense technology startup. The Vice President of AI Engineering (Federal) will build and lead its federal engineering organization, adapting advanced AI systems for secure, compliant government deployments and shaping product roadmaps and go-to-market execution.

Responsibilities

• Build and direct the Federal Engineering team from architecture to deployment
• Design secure, scalable multi-agent frameworks for high-compliance federal and defense environments
• Translate advanced agentic architectures and planning loops into ruggedized federal solutions
• Drive technical alignment with strict security standards, FedRAMP, and GovCloud constraints
• Partner with leadership to shape product roadmaps and go-to-market execution

Benefits

• Equity
• Hybrid / Remote work arrangement in Boston, MA

Company

• Technical recruitment agency for engineering, energy, construction and technology.
• Bristol, Bristol, GBR
• https://risetechnical.co.uk/
• Founded in 2005
• 201-500 employees

Qualifications

• Experience scaling high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments
• Experience building production-grade LLM systems and multi-agent architectures
• Exceptional communicator aligning research scientists, federal stakeholders, and enterprise operators
• US Citizen

Required skills

• Engineering Team Leadership, Multi-Agent Architectures