Vice President of Engineering

Fidelity Investments • Jersey City, NJ

4d • $140,000 - $285,000

About The Position

Fidelity Labs is building enterprise AI products for customer-facing experiences across Fidelity’s businesses. The Vice President of Engineering will serve as the technical and engineering organizational owner of ARGOS, a foundational platform intended to provide safe, scalable, and compliant AI capabilities to millions of customers.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership, platform architecture ownership, and building an engineering organization. The leader will set 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. It reports directly to the Managing Director.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience crafting low-latency distributed systems and hands-on experience with LLMs.
• Knowledge of fundamental log management architectures and experience navigating compliance in regulated industries.
• Experience hiring and managing teams of at least 15 engineers.
• Deep AWS knowledge.
• A proven track record of delivering scalable solutions and building systems from scratch.
• Outstanding ability to make high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information and document outcomes.
• 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

• An advanced degree or equivalent experience in ML/AI research.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the ARGOS platform.
• Build and lead a high-caliber engineering organization.
• Partner with product, legal, compliance, security, and executive leadership to deploy AI capabilities responsibly.
• Make high-stakes technical decisions with incomplete information and document outcomes.
• Provide clear, concise progress reports 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, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources.

What This Job Offers

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