VP R&D / Head of Platform & Release Engineering AIdome™ (Equity + Salary)

AIdome™ is building the enterprise control plane for AI security, governance, and deployment.

As we scale from early enterprise pilots to repeatable production rollouts, release velocity, reliability, and cross-enterprise alignment become existential.

This role owns that moment.

We’re looking for a VP-level R&D leader who can take responsibility for how AIdome is built, released, and operated across cloud, on-prem, and regulated enterprise environments, and turn engineering output into predictable, secure, enterprise-grade delivery.

You are accountable for how AIdome ships and scales.

Not just pipelines, process, ownership, standards, and outcomes across R&D, security, product, and customer deployments.

• Own the end-to-end release lifecycle: build → test → sign → deploy → observe → recover
• Design a single enterprise-grade release framework supporting SaaS, private cloud, and customer-hosted environments
• Establish release cadences, versioning strategy, rollback standards, and SLAs

• Define the platform architecture for environments across AWS and customer VMs
• Set the standard for infrastructure as code, GitOps, and reproducible installs
• Ensure deployments are auditable, secure, and compliant by design

• Lead cross-functional delivery processes across R&D, Product, Security, and Customer Operations
• Introduce clear ownership models (RACI), escalation paths, and decision frameworks
• Align engineering output with enterprise onboarding, security reviews, and procurement realities

• Establish SRE practices: SLOs, observability, incident response, and postmortems
• Own platform hardening standards: IAM, TLS/mTLS, secrets, WAFs, artifact signing
• Partner with security, compliance, and customer teams to pass enterprise reviews without friction

• Build and lead a small, high-leverage platform / release engineering team
• Set engineering standards that favor clarity, discipline, and operational excellence
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the operational maturity of the entire R&D org
  

• Senior engineering leadership experience (VP R&D, Head of Engineering, Principal Platform Lead)
• Proven track record owning enterprise release pipelines and production platforms
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform / Pulumi), and modern release strategies
• Experience shipping into regulated or security-sensitive enterprise environments
• Strong grasp of cloud + on-prem / hybrid architectures
• Operational mindset: you care about uptime, rollback, auditability, and trust
• Ability to lead across org boundaries and influence without friction
• Comfortable representing engineering decisions to execs, customers, and partners
  

• Kubernetes / Helm at scale
• Identity and access platforms (OIDC, Keycloak, enterprise IdPs)
• Supply-chain security (Cosign, SBOMs, Trivy)
• Experience with customer-hosted or air-gapped deployments
• FinOps or cost-governance experience
  

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity (founding-level impact)
• Executive ownership over platform, release, and delivery strategy
• Direct influence on how AIdome scales into large enterprises
  

Enterprise AI security fails when releases are slow, fragile, or unclear.

AIdome wins by shipping predictably, securely, and repeatedly, across environments others avoid.

• This role ensures we do that by design, not heroics.