Vice President of Engineering

Job Description

OUR COMPANY

SimX is a fast-growing company that has brought virtual and augmented reality to medical simulation training. At the end of 2024, we were acquired by Madison Industries, a partnership that has provided a surge in resources to accelerate our growth and mission. Our professional-grade VR system is the first of its kind, used by physicians, nurses, and paramedics to reduce medical errors and save lives.

Over the last decade, demand for our product has exploded; we are now used by 10 of the nation’s top 15 hospitals, including world-renowned institutions like the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Pennsylvania, our product is used around the world, and our technology is deployed across more than 50 US Military installations. We are looking for a mission-driven engineering leader to help us continue this momentum and achieve our mission to save lives around the world through better, faster, and more accessible simulation training.

THE MISSION

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Vice President of Engineering will be the executive leader of our engineering organization. Your mission is to further develop the maturity of our engineering organization, foster a culture of engineering excellence in a time of unprecedented change to engineering practices, and accelerate the delivery of our life-saving VR products. You will guide the evolution of our technical platform, ensuring it is robust, scalable, extensible, and capable of supporting our rapid growth as we scale toward $50M+ in ARR and beyond.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Engineering Leadership & Vision

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• Partner with the CEO, CTO, and executive team to define and execute the technical and engineering roadmap, ensuring alignment with our mission, product strategy, and market expansion goals.
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• Architect a long-term engineering strategy that balances rapid feature delivery with scalable, secure, and maintainable infrastructure.
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• Define, track, and report engineering KPIs that give the executive team and Madison Industries leadership clear visibility into delivery, quality, and team health.
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• Adapt the engineering organization to the rapidly advancing frontier of engineering processes, including the ubiquitous use of AI tooling, in order to maximize the performance of the team.
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Team Building & Organizational Scaling

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• Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class, distributed engineering team, scaling the organization to support a business 10x its current size.
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• Establish robust engineering management practices, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and cross-functional collaboration.
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• Manage the company’s Engineering division, including direct reports at the Director level and technical leads and individual contributors through the reporting chain, and own its organizational design.
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• Develop a strong engineering leadership bench (managers and technical leads) and ensure they are capable of independently owning major engineering areas as the organization grows.
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Engineering Execution and Effectiveness

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• Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, driving disciplined agile practices that deliver predictable, high-quality releases.
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• Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, and Clinical Education teams to ensure engineering outputs consistently meet the rigorous standards required for professional healthcare training.
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• Drive operational excellence by ensuring adoption and continuous improvement of best practices (e.g., optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating testing, reducing technical debt), as well as integrating new approaches (e.g., AI-driven testing, automated code reviews, etc.) when appropriate.
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Architecture, Quality, & Security

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• Oversee the design and evolution of our platform architecture, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability across global education, hospital and military deployments.
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• Complete the platform’s transition to a fully composable architecture of well-separated, extensible components that can be combined to serve any scenario, product, or market.
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• Standardize how platform components are designed, described, and documented (consistent interface contracts and rich, machine-readable metadata) to ensure that scenarios and products can be composed through tooling.
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• Establish engineering standards that ensure software is secure, reliable, maintainable, and observable throughout the software development lifecycle.
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• Lead continuing efforts to support our enterprise customers via an engineering focus on security and compliance (e.g., SOC 2 and other relevant certifications, secure software development lifecycle, and broad adoption of best practices).
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• Own engineering metrics related to software quality, platform reliability, security posture, technical debt, and performance.
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• Establish engineering ownership for production reliability, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
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QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
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• 10+ years of professional engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role (VP, Senior Director, or equivalent) in a high-growth environment.
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• Proven experience scaling a SaaS, gaming, or EdTech company’s engineering organization through significant growth phases (e.g., $10M to $50M+ ARR); experience specifically at a B2B company selling to enterprise customers preferred.
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• Deep technical expertise in modern software architecture, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted engineering tooling and practices.
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• Experience leading engineering organizations through navigating regulatory requirements and security and compliance initiatives such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or similar, and including integrating secure development practices into the software development lifecycle.
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• Demonstrated success in recruiting, managing, and retaining high-performing, distributed engineering teams.
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• U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. SimX is unable to sponsor visas at this time.
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Preferred Qualifications

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• Experience in a PE or VC-backed environment.
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• Previous experience in the healthcare, simulation, gaming, or medical technology industries.
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• Hands-on experience with game engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine and VR/AR hardware ecosystems.
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• Experience building and managing distributed teams in a remote-first environment.
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• Experience leading component-based platforms, including standardized component models and interface contracts, consistency and reuse across a large library of parts, and self-describing systems (schemas, metadata, documentation) that authoring tools and non-technical users can build on without engineering involvement.
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COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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• Target salary range: $255,000 - $285,000 annually, commensurate with experience, plus a 15% annual performance bonus based on business performance targets.
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• Equity Appreciation Rights (EARs), which let you share directly in the value created as the company grows.
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• Remote work environment.
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• SimX covers 99% of employee premiums and 50% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision.
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• 401(k) with employer matching.
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• Company laptop, home office credit, and internet reimbursement.
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• Unlimited PTO.
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SimX is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to have a workforce that represents the full diversity of the health professionals that we aim to train and the patients whose care we want to improve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. SimX is committed to making reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.

The hiring department will conduct interviews of qualified individuals prior to requesting a criminal background check, and no job application submitted prior to such interview shall inquire into an applicant's criminal history. If this position is subject to a background check for any convictions related to its responsibilities and requirements, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation including criminal history. Criminal history will not automatically disqualify a candidate.