VP of Engineering

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.