Engineering Director

Transform healthcare with us.

At Qualified Health were redefining whats possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance healthcare-specific agent creation and real-time algorithm monitoringworking alongside leading health systems to drive real change.

This is more than just a job. Its an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare solve complex challenges and make a lasting impact on patient care. If youre ambitious innovative and ready to move fast wed love to have you on board.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job summary

Our engineering organization has tripled in size over a short period and we are seeking a Director of Engineering to set the strategic direction and organizational structure for this next stage of growth demands. This is an engineering leadership role with ownership across our entire engineering organization application scaling and delivery new product development powered by cutting-edge AI and LLM methodologies and our core platform.

The Director will lead through a team of technical leaders shaping org-wide roadmap priorities resourcing and technical direction rather than running any single team day-to-day. This role is central to our value-based contracting strategy working directly with senior leadership and major accounts to help realize and demonstrate substantial business value.

We are looking for a proven sustained engineering leader with a track record of building and scaling engineering organizations and developing managers into stronger leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Own full people management responsibilities across your organization: performance reviews conflict resolution career progression and hiring

• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization growing headcount thoughtfully as the org expands

• Drive the roadmap and delivery across the full engineering organization including application scaling and delivery new product development and our core platform.

• Guide the adoption of the latest LLM methodologies and applied AI techniques to solve some of the hardest highest-impact problems in healthcare

• Lead modernization of the platform to support a scaling application layer

• Manage and develop the managers and functional leads across your organization

• Partner with executive leadership to align roadmaps and priorities across Applications and Platform

• Stay close enough to the technical work to make sound decisions and unblock your teams (10%-50% hands-on) while spending the majority of your time on management and leadership

• Support client accounts engineering needs helping the business prove out value-based contract commitments

Required Qualifications

• 1015 years of engineering experience including sustained 4 years of ongoing experience as a people manager

• Track record of growing a team from a small group to 10 people

• Experience managing 1015 engineers either directly or through other managers

• Demonstrated full-cycle people management skills: performance management conflict resolution and career development

• Comfort with system design and architecture discussions; some hands-on coding ability is expected; high comfortability and expertise with system design

• Strong technical breadth across backend engineering applied AI/ML and platform or distributed systems with experience taking applications into production

• Background as an engineering tech lead prior to transitioning into management

Desirable Skills

• Experience at both a big tech company and a growth-stage startup

• Prior experience leading engineering for a health-tech business (not required but a plus)

• Experience operating in value-based or outcomes-based contract environments

• Familiarity with modern LLM tooling and methodologies

• Experience partnering with account or business leadership on high-stakes high-value client relationships

Why Join Qualified Health

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.

Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages robust medical/dental/vision insurance flexible working hours hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin marital status disability or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $240000-$310000 and will depend on your skills qualifications experience and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Join our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI. To apply please send your resume through the application below.

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