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VP of Engineering roles attract strong H-1B visa and O-1A sponsorship from U.S. tech companies, particularly for candidates with demonstrated team leadership and system architecture experience. Most sponsorships are employer-initiated, and many firms support green card filing within the first year. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
ABOUT DEFCON AI
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems. In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
We’re looking for a highly proactive VP of Engineering to lead and scale a high-performing team building cutting-edge AI enabled technology. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can balance technical vision, team building and execution – and thrives in a fast-moving, start-up environment delivering systems that perform reliability in real-world, high stakes environments.
This role goes beyond building scalable products – you’ll lead the development of secure, resilient, and auditable systems deployed in demanding customer environments, including government and defense contexts. This role owns the evolution of a complex platform spanning planning engines, backend services, data and AI systems, secure cloud infrastructure and user-facing applications.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
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Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team of 10+ senior software engineers, with a strong focus on mentorship, technical excellence, and healthy delivery practices.
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Set technical vision and execution strategy across our full stack—frontend, backend services, data platforms, and integrations with AI/optimization systems.
-
Drive experimentation and thoughtful innovation, encouraging teams to explore unconventional approaches while maintaining reliability, security, and healthy delivery practices.
-
Partner closely with optimization researchers and analytics teams to translate complex algorithms and models into scalable, reliable production systems.
-
Own engineering delivery: roadmaps, execution plans, engineering standards, and architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
-
Oversee complex, multi-layered systems end-to-end, making high impact technical decisions that account for architecture, data, algorithms and operations together rather than in isolation.
-
Drive engineering excellence establishing high standards for code quality, system design, testing and reliability.
-
Champion engineering at the leadership level, ensuring the team has the tools, clarity, and focus to do their best work.
-
Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure engineering systems, processes and environments support CUI handling, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS and customer security requirements.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
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Proven experience leading and scaling high performing engineering teams in a high-growth or startup environment.
-
Strong technical background across modern web architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.
-
Experience bringing complex AI, optimization, or data-intensive systems into production environments.
-
Track record of setting technical direction while also getting things shipped.
-
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and translate abstract business or mission goals into concrete technical strategies and execution plans.
-
Clear, compelling communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
-
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment with real ownership and influence.
-
Experience operating in DoD, IC, federal or similarly regulated environments.
-
Working knowledge of CUI handling, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS252.204.7012.
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Experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps, vulnerability management, logging, hardening, and auditability.
-
This role requires US Citizenship and all work to be performed within the United States.
NICE TO HAVE
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Experience integrating production systems with Python-based analytics or AI workflows.
-
Familiarity with modern DevOps, observability, and reliability practices.
-
Familiarity with real-time systems, asynchronous processing, and data-intensive applications.
-
Experience supporting live exercises, demonstrations, operational test events, or time-sensitive deployments.
-
Experience working closely with mathematical optimization models, including translating real-world problems into production systems in partnership with optimization researchers.
-
Experience with Algebraic Modeling Languages and Solvers (e.g., Pyomo, GAMS, AMPL, CPLEX, Gurobi).
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Experience with RMF, ATO, or cATO processes.
-
Experience with ITAR/EAR or export-controlled environments.
WHY DEFCON AI
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Direct impact on company strategy and technical direction.
-
Opportunity to lead and shape a world-class engineering team.
-
Meaningful AI-driven problems with real-world applications.
-
You’ll have both strategic influence and hands-on impact.
WHAT WE OFFER:
-
A fully remote, results-based environment.
-
Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package.
-
100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
-
Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval.
-
Flexible work environment where you manage your work day.
-
14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave.
Salary Range: $250,000-$290,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
OUR RED CELL PARTNERS BENEFITS:
For full-time roles
-
Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
-
100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
-
Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
-
Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
-
Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
-
Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
-
Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
-
Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Our hiring process may involve third-party service providers to facilitate recruitment and hiring processes. Your application materials may be transmitted to and processed by these providers for various purposes including managing your application, verifying the accuracy of application materials, and identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent content.
If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.
About us
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
ABOUT DEFCON AI
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems. In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
We’re looking for a highly proactive VP of Engineering to lead and scale a high-performing team building cutting-edge AI enabled technology. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can balance technical vision, team building and execution – and thrives in a fast-moving, start-up environment delivering systems that perform reliability in real-world, high stakes environments.
This role goes beyond building scalable products – you’ll lead the development of secure, resilient, and auditable systems deployed in demanding customer environments, including government and defense contexts. This role owns the evolution of a complex platform spanning planning engines, backend services, data and AI systems, secure cloud infrastructure and user-facing applications.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
-
Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team of 10+ senior software engineers, with a strong focus on mentorship, technical excellence, and healthy delivery practices.
-
Set technical vision and execution strategy across our full stack—frontend, backend services, data platforms, and integrations with AI/optimization systems.
-
Drive experimentation and thoughtful innovation, encouraging teams to explore unconventional approaches while maintaining reliability, security, and healthy delivery practices.
-
Partner closely with optimization researchers and analytics teams to translate complex algorithms and models into scalable, reliable production systems.
-
Own engineering delivery: roadmaps, execution plans, engineering standards, and architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
-
Oversee complex, multi-layered systems end-to-end, making high impact technical decisions that account for architecture, data, algorithms and operations together rather than in isolation.
-
Drive engineering excellence establishing high standards for code quality, system design, testing and reliability.
-
Champion engineering at the leadership level, ensuring the team has the tools, clarity, and focus to do their best work.
-
Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure engineering systems, processes and environments support CUI handling, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS and customer security requirements.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
-
Proven experience leading and scaling high performing engineering teams in a high-growth or startup environment.
-
Strong technical background across modern web architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.
-
Experience bringing complex AI, optimization, or data-intensive systems into production environments.
-
Track record of setting technical direction while also getting things shipped.
-
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and translate abstract business or mission goals into concrete technical strategies and execution plans.
-
Clear, compelling communication skills—able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
-
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment with real ownership and influence.
-
Experience operating in DoD, IC, federal or similarly regulated environments.
-
Working knowledge of CUI handling, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS252.204.7012.
-
Experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps, vulnerability management, logging, hardening, and auditability.
-
This role requires US Citizenship and all work to be performed within the United States.
NICE TO HAVE
-
Experience integrating production systems with Python-based analytics or AI workflows.
-
Familiarity with modern DevOps, observability, and reliability practices.
-
Familiarity with real-time systems, asynchronous processing, and data-intensive applications.
-
Experience supporting live exercises, demonstrations, operational test events, or time-sensitive deployments.
-
Experience working closely with mathematical optimization models, including translating real-world problems into production systems in partnership with optimization researchers.
-
Experience with Algebraic Modeling Languages and Solvers (e.g., Pyomo, GAMS, AMPL, CPLEX, Gurobi).
-
Experience with RMF, ATO, or cATO processes.
-
Experience with ITAR/EAR or export-controlled environments.
WHY DEFCON AI
-
Direct impact on company strategy and technical direction.
-
Opportunity to lead and shape a world-class engineering team.
-
Meaningful AI-driven problems with real-world applications.
-
You’ll have both strategic influence and hands-on impact.
WHAT WE OFFER:
-
A fully remote, results-based environment.
-
Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package.
-
100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
-
Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval.
-
Flexible work environment where you manage your work day.
-
14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave.
Salary Range: $250,000-$290,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
OUR RED CELL PARTNERS BENEFITS:
For full-time roles
-
Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
-
100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
-
Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
-
Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
-
Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
-
Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
-
Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
-
Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Our hiring process may involve third-party service providers to facilitate recruitment and hiring processes. Your application materials may be transmitted to and processed by these providers for various purposes including managing your application, verifying the accuracy of application materials, and identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent content.
If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.
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Lead with organizational impact, not just technical depth
Sponsoring companies want evidence you've scaled engineering organizations, not just codebases. Quantify team size managed, hiring volume, and measurable outcomes like uptime improvements or deployment frequency before listing technical stack expertise.
Target companies that have sponsored VP-level roles before
H-1B sponsorship at the VP level is less common than at IC levels. Focus on companies with a history of sponsoring senior leadership, which signals an established immigration program and legal infrastructure capable of handling executive petitions.
Understand how your degree field maps to the specialty occupation requirement
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the VP of Engineering role. Computer science, software engineering, and electrical engineering degrees align cleanly. Unrelated degrees will require additional documentation and may face RFEs.
Ask about EB-1C eligibility during the offer stage
VP of Engineering roles often qualify for the EB-1C multinational manager and executive green card category if the company has international operations. Raising this early can significantly accelerate your permanent residency timeline compared to the PERM labor certification route.
Get clarity on the company's immigration counsel before signing
The quality of your employer's immigration attorney directly affects petition approval timelines and RFE outcomes. Ask whether they use in-house counsel or an experienced outside firm, and confirm they have prior experience with senior engineering leadership sponsorships.
Prepare your O-1A case materials in parallel if eligible
VP-level candidates with patents, press coverage, conference talks, or significant compensation relative to peers may qualify for O-1A. This visa bypasses the H-1B lottery entirely, making it a strong alternative if you missed the annual selection window.
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Find VP Of Engineering JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Do companies commonly sponsor H-1B visas for VP of Engineering roles?
Yes, though sponsorship at the VP level is less frequent than at individual contributor roles. Larger technology companies and well-funded startups are the most active sponsors, as they have established immigration programs. Mid-market companies may hesitate due to cost and legal complexity, so targeting companies with a track record of executive-level sponsorship significantly improves your chances.
What visa options are available for a VP of Engineering seeking U.S. work authorization?
The H-1B is the most common path, requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in a related field and employer sponsorship. The O-1A is a strong alternative for candidates with demonstrable extraordinary ability, including patents, notable compensation, or press recognition. L-1A applies if you're transferring within a multinational company in a managerial or executive capacity.
Does a VP of Engineering role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Generally yes, provided the employer's job description requires a specific bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. Broad job descriptions that accept any technical degree can create problems during USCIS adjudication. Employers with experienced immigration counsel will draft the role description carefully to meet the specialty occupation standard and reduce the risk of an RFE.
Can a VP of Engineering on an H-1B get a green card faster than other employees?
Often yes. VP of Engineering roles may qualify for EB-1C if the employer is a multinational with foreign operations, bypassing the PERM labor certification process entirely and avoiding the EB-2 or EB-3 backlogs. Even without EB-1C eligibility, employers often prioritize filing I-140 petitions promptly for senior hires, which locks in an earlier priority date.
Where can I find VP of Engineering jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for this. It filters job listings by sponsorship willingness, so you're not wasting time applying to roles where international candidates are screened out at the resume stage. VP of Engineering roles with active sponsorship appear across technology, fintech, and healthcare sectors on the platform.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored VP Of Engineering jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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