Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, setting clear goals and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.
• Drive successful quarterly and long-range planning efforts, balancing innovation with execution, and ensuring engineering teams consistently meet delivery commitments.
• Ensure engineering teams are executing with high quality, predictable velocity, and attention to operational reliability.
• Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering and management talent; build an inclusive, high-performance team culture.
• Manage and grow an organization of engineering teams that span algorithm development, visualizations, results and report generation.
• Mentor and guide engineering managers in their career development and technical growth.
• Provide technical leadership across medical device software, including visualization, UI architecture, cloud services, algorithm development and integration.
• Collaborate with product, clinical, design, and research teams to build seamless and effective user experiences that translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to evolve our system architecture and ensure cross-team alignment and technical coherence.
• Contribute hands-on to design when appropriate, especially in areas of high impact such as architecture, rendering pipelines, or clinical data visualization.

Skills Needed:

• Proven experience managing managers and leading multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
• Track record of successful planning, consistent execution, and on-time delivery of complex software projects.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with an ability to align engineering outcomes to business priorities.
• Experience in turning complex data and algorithms into intuitive, interactive visual experiences.
• Strong background in UI/UX-driven development, data visualization, or real-time rendering.
• Practical experience of turning research-developed algorithms into production-grade software
• Solid understanding of MLOps, cloud-native development, and scalable architectures.
• Deep knowledge of software development best practices: testing, CI/CD, DevOps, agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
• Experience with medical applications or other regulated industries. Direct experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is highly desired.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructures (Amazon Web Services or equivalent).
• Nice-to-have: experience with medical imaging or 3D visualization.

Educational Requirements & Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience in a software company.
• Experience shipping and maintaining commercial software products that combine ML models with engaging user interfaces.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years managing engineering managers and growing multi-team organizations.

A reasonable estimate of the yearly base compensation range is $220,000 to $290,000 (For San Francisco Bay Area), cash bonus, and equity. #LI-Hybrid

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