VP Engineering (Core Platform)
First seen by Alion on Nov 9, 2026.
Hiring for BRAHMA AI — via Flexiple, the recruiting partner on this role.
About the Company
BRAHMA AI is an enterprise AI content platform used by some of the world's largest media & entertainment, sports and advertising companies. It grew out of Prime Focus Technologies, the team behind CLEAR®, the cloud media asset management and content supply chain platform. BRAHMA AI now combines CLEAR with generative and visual AI, which won a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy®. With new funding and an AI-native content operating system in market, BRAHMA AI is scaling the core platform that every product runs on, and needs an engineering leader in Bengaluru to own it.
About the Role
As VP Engineering for the Core Platform, you'll own end-to-end delivery of BRAHMA AI's platform, from understanding the business need to choosing the solution, testing it and rolling it out. You'll lead a global organisation of 75+ software engineers and DevOps, work with product line management on the vision and roadmap, and keep the platform AI-first, scalable and reliable for enterprise customers. The role is onsite in Bengaluru, and you'll stay close enough to the code to build with AI tools yourself.
What you'll do
- Own delivery of the core platform end to end and turn the product roadmap into a delivery plan with product line management
- Lead the build and launch of AI-first enterprise SaaS capabilities, including agentic AI workflows across media asset management, localisation and content operations
- Provide technical oversight on microservices, horizontal scaling and Docker/Kubernetes across AWS, GCP and Azure
- Direct a global team of 75+ engineers and DevOps: set KRAs, grow managers and build a high-performance culture
- Run Agile programs for intermediate-to-large cross-functional modules, delivering on time and with high quality
- Manage the engineering cost centre and budget, and report progress to leadership and global operations partners in weekly and monthly reviews
- Bring AI into how software is built (AI-led SDLC) and drive technical innovation across the team
What you bring
- 15–20 years in software, now in a VP or Director-level engineering leadership role
- 8+ years of software program management and delivery in a software product company
- Have led an engineering and DevOps organisation of 75+ people, including managers of managers, across locations
- Have shipped and scaled a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS product built on microservices and Kubernetes in the cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Have delivered AI-first or agentic AI product features, and use AI coding tools hands-on
- Strong technical grounding in Java, SQL/NoSQL databases and DevOps
- Have owned a cost centre or engineering budget and tracked delivery with Jira, MPP and spreadsheets
- Clear written and spoken communication, from individual contributors to senior leadership; a B.E., B.Tech or M.Tech
Nice to have
- Experience with media operations or the media & entertainment industry (OTT, broadcast, content supply chain, media asset management)
- A program management certification
Originally posted on: 7 Nov 2026