Vice President of Engineering

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Mission-driven climate tech company with world-changing technology is seeking an experienced startup VP of Engineering to oversee engineering efforts across a full-stack of IoT hardware sensing, software, front end, and cloud operations. You possess unmatched management skills, a vision for product architecture, customer obsession, and the engineering chops to orchestrate and collaborate up and down the stack to build truly innovative capabilities.

The right candidate knows how to lead and build an amazing team, and can draw from direct experience to build tech that delights customers.

Aclima is pioneering an entirely new way to scientifically monitor and respond to air pollution in communities, and track the effectiveness of focused mitigation efforts. We leverage cutting‑edge sensor technology mounted on fleets of mapping vehicles to measure air pollution, greenhouse gases, methane, and air toxics across entire cities, states, and regions at block‑level resolution. Our professional analytics software, Aclima Pro, translates billions of scientific measurements into insights at the source level, providing Environmental Intelligence for governments, industry, and communities.

Our free app delivers address‑level air pollution insights for the communities we serve. Aclima is a purpose‑driven technology company helping to catalyze bold climate action that protects community health, reduces emissions, and supports smart government.

Aclima is one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential companies. Other awards include Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World, #1 in Data Science, Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business, a Fast Company 2022 World Changing Idea, a WEF Technology Pioneer, and one of the top 100 companies in Gov Tech for 2023. Aclima is headquartered in San Francisco.

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As the VP of Engineering
, you will report directly to the CEO, leading and coordinating engineering teams across the stack. This includes frontend and backend engineering as well as data science, modeling, AI, and hardware, developing a healthy and fun engineering culture centered on quality, speed, collaboration, and cost. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and managing engineering teams, and working hand‑in‑hand with Aclima’s product leadership to create an engineering roadmap to build Aclima’s products that provide delightful differentiated value to our customers and users.

Your experience as an engineer building complex architectures and data products gives you credibility to guide our talented engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will be resourceful, organized, motivating, optimistic, astute, savvy, action‑oriented, outcomes‑focused, and a cultural cornerstone of the organization. A sense of humor helps too! Responsibilities will span the following categories.

• Develop and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap in alignment with the company’s vision and product objectives.
• Lead and mentor a diverse team of engineers across software, hardware, and data analytics disciplines.
• Provide detailed technical and strategic guidance to the engineering teams by balancing long‑term engineering development efforts and more immediate product needs.

• Spearhead seamless collaboration with the product leads, resulting in efficient and effective execution on product roadmaps, enabling engineering teams to deliver exceptional products on time and within budget.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders in the organization, and occasionally with the customer to ensure solutions are engineered to meet the customer’s needs.

• Drive innovation in environmental sensing technologies, and data systems, focusing on scalability, reliability, and cost‑effectiveness.
• Apply the latest generative AI tools and models, integrating them into our products and workflows, creating differentiated delightful experiences for customers and increasing internal operating leverage.
• Stay current with industry trends and the latest emerging technologies to maintain the most differentiated product for our…