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AMP: AI-Powered Sortation for Waste and Recycling is hiring a Vice President, Engineering

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute AMP's technology vision, strategy, and roadmap in support of the company's commercial and strategic objectives.
  • Align engineering teams around clear priorities, goals, and measures of success while maintaining accountability for results.
  • Balance short-term business needs with long-term technology investments to maximize company impact.
  • Lead and scale AMP's engineering organization across Facility Engineering, R&D, and Software Infrastructure.
  • Build a high-performing culture known for quality, innovation, responsiveness, efficiency, and predictable execution.
  • Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain exceptional engineering talent and leaders.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning software, artificial intelligence, hardware, systems integration, manufacturing, and operations.
  • Drive execution of hardware, software, and systems engineering programs, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products and capabilities.
  • Establish engineering best practices, quality systems, and operating processes that support reliable deployments and scalable growth.
  • Ensure technology investments and roadmaps are aligned with customer needs, operational requirements, and business priorities.
  • Partner with the executive team to shape and operationalize AMP's technology strategy.
  • Collaborate closely with Operations, Commercial, Product, and Customer teams to accelerate execution and deliver business value.
  • Own engineering budgets, resource planning, capital investments, and technology portfolio prioritization.
  • Establish and monitor key performance metrics across engineering, product delivery, quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Evaluate technology risks and opportunities, making decisions that balance innovation, execution, scalability, and financial performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of engineering leadership experience in hardware-centric product organizations, including 4+ years at the Senior Director, VP, or equivalent executive level.
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations of 30+ engineers and technical leaders across hardware, software, systems, and operations.
  • Proven track record of delivering products and technology programs that create measurable business value.
  • Experience leading multiple product launches in fast-paced, agile environments.
  • Hands-on leadership across the full product lifecycle, including architecture, development, program management, quality, deployment, and operations.
  • Demonstrated success building high-performing teams, scalable engineering processes, and a culture of accountability and execution.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence across all levels of an organization.
  • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, balancing innovation, technical debt, delivery commitments, and long-term investments.
  • Strategic technology leader who connects engineering investments to business outcomes.
  • Strong operator with experience in budgeting, capital allocation, and portfolio prioritization.
  • Builder of high-performing organizations and leadership teams.
  • Customer- and business-oriented executive who balances innovation, operational excellence, and financial discipline.
  • Comfortable making high-impact decisions and influencing executives, customers, investors, and external partners.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building, operating, or supporting manufacturing facilities enabled by internally developed technology.
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Robotics
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Machine Learning / AI
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Embedded Systems
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Industrial Automation, Manufacturing, and SCADA Systems
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Cloud Infrastructure
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: DevOps and Platform Engineering
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: Product Management

Benefits

  • Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
  • Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life
  • Benefits start the day you start
  • HSA Eligible Health Plans, Company Monthly Contributions!
  • 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
  • FTO - Flexible Time Off
  • 6 Accrued Sick Days
  • Eight (8) paid holidays

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
  • Travel Requirements: 25%
  • Equity Grant: The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate’s qualifications.
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AMP: AI-Powered Sortation for Waste and Recycling

AMP designs, builds, and operates advanced, cost-competitive facilities to process single-stream recycling and municipal solid waste using artificial intelligence.

Headquartered and with manufacturing operations in Colorado, AMP builds and deploys technology that solves the central challenges of recycling. The company modernizes and scales the world’s recycling infrastructure by applying AI and automation to waste sortation, enabling the economical recovery of commodities for the global supply chain.

With hundreds of systems installed across three continents, AMP increases the value extracted from recyclable material through superior separation, purity, and identification. The technology helps overcome labor shortages, improve bale purity, lower recycling costs, divert materials from landfill, and increase overall recycling and resource recovery rates.

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