Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering About the Company Pioneering provider of adaptive training & assessment solutions Industry Computer Software Type Privately Held About the Role The Company is seeking a VP, Platform to take on the pivotal role of architectural and technical owner of its adaptive intelligence system. This system is designed to sense, interpret, and train human performance in real-time, with a focus on ingesting multimodal bio signals, estimating human state, and executing closed-loop adaptation. The successful candidate will be responsible for scaling and hardening this real-time, multimodal, closed-loop intelligence system, ensuring its integration with AI-driven state modeling and adaptive training within an immersive VR runtime. Core responsibilities include defining system boundaries, guiding the evolution to a modular platform architecture, and leading the team in the deployment of production-grade AI/ML. Applicants for the VP, Platform position at the company should have a minimum of 10 years' engineering leadership experience, with a strong background in large-scale platform architecture. The role requires expertise in architecting and shipping real-time, state-driven or event-driven systems, as well as production experience in deploying AI/ML systems and integrating them into user-facing products. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in designing multimodal or high-frequency data systems, and the ability to transition from tightly integrated systems to scalable, service-oriented architecture. Team and technical leadership skills are essential, including the ability to build and scale multidisciplinary engineering teams and establish engineering standards. Strong systems thinking and the ability to define clean architectural boundaries are also key requirements for this role. Travel Percent Less than 10% Functions Engineering