About the Role
The Head of Engineering - Applied AI owns V2’s engineering capability end to end, focusing on technical standards, platform development, and engineering team growth. This role is about making engineering squads faster, safer, and more consistent by setting AI-native development lifecycle and agentic engineering standards, building reusable assets, and growing the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Own V2’s engineering capability end to end.
- Set AI-native development lifecycle (AI-DLC) and agentic engineering standards.
- Build reusable assets, accelerators, reference architectures, and shared tooling.
- Establish certification pathways and structured Dojo tracks for engineers.
- Set technical hiring standards.
Requirements
- A track record leading a 100+ engineering organization in a highly regulated environment through rapid scale, ideally in consulting, professional services, or high-growth product environments.
- Deep, current technical fluency in modern AI systems: GenAI, agents, evaluation, AgentOps, and the lifecycles that take them to production.
- Experience building reusable platforms, accelerators, or internal developer platforms that other teams adopt because they work, not because they’re mandated.
- A builder’s approach to capability: certification, coaching, and structured development at scale.
Skills
- AI Engineering standards
- AI-native development lifecycle
- Agentic engineering
- GenAI
- Agents
- Evaluation
- AgentOps
- Platform development
- Accelerators
- Reference architectures
- Shared tooling
- Certification pathways
- Dojo tracks
- Technical hiring
Location
- Singapore
Work Type
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Leadership experience with 100+ engineers
- Experience in consulting, professional services, or high-growth product environments
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary package
- Well funded start up $$$
Benefits
- Pick your equipment
- Gifted Day Off ("VersionUp Day")
- Generous parental leave
- Annual Training budget
- Mentorship Program
- Clear promotion pathways
- Flexible working
- Meet-ups & socials
About the Company
- V2 is an AI-native consultancy of 100+ people helping enterprises move from AI ambition to production.
- We hold Anthropic Select partner status alongside AWS and Databricks partnerships.
- We build with Claude at the core of everything we deliver: agentic AI, Claude Code, AI-native software delivery (AI-DLC) and enterprise platform modernisation.
- We are scaling towards a $38m run rate across ANZ and APJ, with Singapore as the beachhead for regional expansion.
- 97% Rating on corporate social responsibility
