Overview About Ripik.AI

Ripik.ai is an Accel-backed Applied AI company building computer vision and process optimization agents for the world's largest industrial enterprises across steel, cement, aluminum, chemicals, pharma, and power. Our Vision AI platform acts as an automated pair of eyes on the shop floor - monitoring materials, equipment, and processes 24/7 with 95%+ accuracy, eliminating human error, and delivering measurable gains in throughput, yield, energy efficiency, and safety.

We work with marquee customers including Tata Steel, JSW, ArcelorMittal, Vedanta, Godrej & Boyce, Grasim, Holcim, and Jindal Steel, and are scaling globally across India, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. As we move into our next phase of growth, we are building the operating backbone that will take Ripik from a high-velocity scale-up to a category-defining global industrial AI company.

The Role

We are looking for a VP Technology to own the technology vision, architecture, and engineering execution behind Ripik's industrial AI platform. You will lead a cross-functional engineering organisation, stay hands-on where it matters, and bring the judgement of someone who has built and scaled a product from 0 to 1 at an early-stage startup before. This is a senior leadership role reporting into the founders - you will set technical direction, build and grow a high-performing team, and be directly accountable for the reliability, scalability, and quality of everything we ship.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technology strategy and architecture for Ripik's platform - making the key build vs. buy, stack, and scaling decisions.
Lead, grow, and mentor a cross-functional engineering team - hiring, structuring the org, and raising the technical bar as the team scales.
Stay hands-on where needed - review architecture and code, unblock the team on hard technical problems, and set the engineering bar by example.
Drive the integration of AI/ML capabilities into the core product, working closely with the AI/Data Science team.
Own cloud infrastructure and cost on AWS - balancing performance, reliability, and spend as the platform scales.
Partner closely with Product, Sales, and Customer Success to translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and trade-offs.
Own engineering delivery predictability - sprint planning, release cadence, and production reliability (SLAs, incident response).
Represent engineering to leadership and, where relevant, to customers and investors - communicating technical direction and progress clearly.

Required Skills & Experience

B.Tech from a Tier 1 college.
8+ years of overall software engineering experience, with prior experience in a VP Technology / engineering leadership capacity at an early-stage startup.
Proven 0-to-1 experience - has built and scaled a product from the ground up in a startup environment.
Extensive hands-on expertise across AWS cloud, Java, React.js, SQL, and MongoDB.
Strong exposure to AI/ML - understands how to integrate ML/AI capabilities into a production product.
Team handling experience - has hired, structured, and led engineering teams, and is comfortable being accountable for their output.

What can you expect

Ownership of the technology function at a high-growth, venture-backed AI start-up - directly shape architecture, team, and engineering culture from the ground up.
Ability to shape the future of manufacturing by leveraging best-in-class AI and software; we are a unique organization with niche skill set that you would also develop while working with us.
World class work culture, coaching and development.
Mentoring from highly experienced leadership from world class companies (refer to Ripik.AI website for details).
International :

Noida, Sector - 16 (Work from Office)

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Ripik AI - Vice President - Technology