Vice President of Software Engineering in San Mateo

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Job Description

About Optimal Tech Partners

OTP is a precision recruiting firm that operates at the intersection of elite technical recruiting and autonomous hiring infrastructure. We are an engineering-first agency, built by engineers, for engineering teams.

Our team has made over 1,000 hires across Google, Rivian, Unity, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon. We built four of Rivian's core software divisions during the run to the largest IPO since Facebook. We scaled Unity's Machine Learning team from 1 to 30, a group that went on to earn Forbes' 5th Most Important Breakthrough in AI. We led talent at a startup that was acquired by Apple. We helped raise $150M at Next Trucking. Before that, we built dozens of engineering teams at VC-backed startups across Seattle and San Francisco.

Our leadership includes a partner at a top-tier venture capital fund who has deployed over $755M in committed capital across private equity and venture strategies, formerly a Managing Director at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Our recruiting team includes senior technical recruiters who have scaled R&D organizations from 5 to 100 at pre-IPO companies worth billions.

We have placed engineers at startups funded by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank, Kleiner Perkins, and nearly every major firm in Silicon Valley. Our network spans 63,500+ technical professionals and executives.

What makes us different: we build our own tools. OTP runs on a proprietary intelligence platform featuring autonomous sourcing pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, predictive candidate scoring, and a vector-embedded relationship graph across our entire network. We partner with venture capital firms to support portfolio-wide hiring strategy and are actively consulting funds on building their own AI-powered recruiting agents.

We are not a traditional agency. We are a technology company that recruits.

About the Role

We are hiring a VP of Engineering to lead the buildout of OTP's autonomous recruiting infrastructure. This is a foundational leadership role at a company redefining how technical hiring works.

You will own:

The full engineering organization, from platform and data infrastructure to AI/ML systems and client-facing products. You will architect the systems that power sourcing, scoring, matching, and candidate engagement at scale. You will build and lead the engineering team. You will work directly with the founding team to set technical direction.

What you're walking into:

A live production system. Autonomous sourcing pipelines running daily across multiple clients. Multi-agent orchestration handling candidate research, outreach , and pipeline management. A 63,500+ node relationship graph with vector embeddings. Custom MCP server infrastructure. Real clients, real revenue, real candidates being placed. This is not a greenfield "build from scratch" role. The foundation is built. You are here to scale it.

Responsibilities

• Someone who has built and led engineering organizations at high-growth startups, ideally from Series A through scale.
• Deep experience with AI/ML systems, data infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• You understand recruiting or marketplace dynamics well enough to build intelligent systems around them.
• You have operated as both an architect and a leader.
• You are comfortable with equity-heavy compensation at an early stage because you believe in what you're building.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to  and inclusivity in our hiring practices.

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