Vice President of Engineering

Fidelity • Jersey City, NJ

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About The Position

Fidelity Labs is seeking a senior engineering leader to serve as the technical and engineering organizational owner of ARGOS, a foundational platform for delivering safe, scalable, and compliant AI capabilities in customer-facing experiences across Fidelity’s businesses. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, platform architecture ownership, and engineering organization building. The successful candidate will define the platform’s technical direction, build and lead a high-caliber engineering team, and partner with product, legal, compliance, security, and executive leadership to bring AI capabilities into production responsibly. The position offers significant autonomy, decision rights within the platform domain, and executive-level visibility. The role reports directly to the Managing Director.

Fidelity Labs is Fidelity Investments’ in-house fintech incubator. It builds new businesses, tests new product and service ideas with customers, and scales promising concepts within existing business units or as new ventures. Fidelity Labs combines startup-style experimentation and ambition with the scale and stability of an industry leader.

Requirements

• At least 13 years of software engineering experience, including 5 years leading engineering teams.
• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience using modern technology stacks, including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS CDK CLI, and/or Golang.
• A proven track record of delivering scalable solutions and building systems from scratch.
• Experience crafting low-latency distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs.
• Knowledge of fundamental log management architectures.
• Experience navigating compliance in regulated industries.
• Experience hiring and managing teams of at least 15 engineers.
• Deep AWS knowledge.
• Outstanding ability to make high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information and document outcomes.
• Ability to communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and milestones clearly to senior leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 15+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 13+ years of experience in Computer Science.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in ML/AI research.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and engineering organization for the ARGOS platform.
• Define and own the platform architecture.
• Build and lead a high-caliber engineering team.
• Partner with product, legal, compliance, security, and executive leadership to bring AI capabilities into production responsibly.
• Make high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information and document outcomes.
• Provide clear, concise progress reporting to senior leadership.
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and milestones transparently and precisely.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage
• Emotional well-being support
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Charitable giving employee match program
• Educational assistance, including student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement
• Learning resources to develop your career
• Bonus or other variable compensation, depending on position and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive