Vice President of Engineering (New York)

Location: Brooklyn, NY or Bay Area preferred

Mathpix is looking for a VP of Engineering to lead our growing engineering organization. You'll own the technical roadmap, drive execution across backend, infrastructure, and ML teams, and ensure we ship reliable, scalable systems that power our document conversion products. This is a hands-on leadership role — you'll set the bar for engineering quality while building the team and processes needed to scale.

The ideal candidate has led engineering teams at high-growth startups, has deep experience with distributed systems and ML infrastructure, and thrives in environments where they can both architect solutions and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction
• Own the engineering roadmap and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Drive architectural decisions across backend services, infrastructure, and ML systems
• Establish and refine engineering processes for reliability, velocity, and quality
• Partner with ML leadership to ensure models are deployed and scaled effectively in production
• Oversee incident response, production health, and operational excellence

Required skills

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering leadership
• Experience scaling engineering teams and systems at high-growth companies
• Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Strong background in Python and/or Go for backend systems
• Track record of shipping and operating mission-critical production systems
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with founders and cross-functional teams

Nice to have

• Experience with ML infrastructure and model deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with computer vision, OCR, or document processing systems
• Experience building developer tools and improving engineering productivity
• Experience at a startup or high-growth company; founding/early-team experience is a bonus
• Contributions outside of work — personal projects, open-source, articles, or blog posts

If you believe you would be a good fit for this role, please apply using the link below.