Senior Manager, Applied AI Engineering

About Ceribell

Ceribell is a medical technology company focused on transforming the diagnosis and management of patients with serious neurological conditions. The Ceribell System is a novel point-of-care electroencephalography (EEG) platform specifically designed to address the unmet needs of patients in the acute care setting and is being used in hundreds of community hospitals large academic facilities and major IDNs across the country. Our entire team is driven by a shared commitment to transforming the landscape of critical care through our rapid seizure detection technology come join the movement!

Position Overview:

The Senior Manager Applied AI Engineering is a senior individualcontributorrole with broad ownership acrossCeribellsinternal AI engineering portfolio. This person will carry projects frominitialproblem definition through production deploymentoperatingeffectively under conditions of ambiguity and incomplete specification. The technical bar is high this isfirst and foremostan engineering role but the ability to engageatthe business layer and translate between technical and commercial realities is equally non-negotiable.

This role reports directly to the Director of Strategic Programs and Applied AI and works in close ongoing collaboration with Engineering leadership. The successful candidate will directexternalengineering contractors partner cross-functionally with stakeholders across commercial clinical finance and operations and take on expanding ownership of the AI project portfolio as the function scales.

This is a remote position. Candidate can be based anywhere within the US.

What youll do:

• Assume end-to-end ownership of AI engineering projects across the portfolio from requirements definition through architecture development oversight and production deployment
• DesignGCPinfrastructure across all environments in partnership with engineering: Cloud Run IAM VPC network isolation CI/CD pipelines secrets management observability and security controls
• Translate business requirements into technically precise specifications and proactively challenge scope or approach when a stronger path exists
• Lead company-wide AI infrastructure rollout and upskilling initiatives including training programs office hours super-user community development and AI governance scaffolding
• Develop PRDs architecture documents and project scopes that enable contractors and engineering partners to execute independently
• Forecast build timelines and resource requirements across a portfolio of concurrent initiatives
• Direct and quality-review the output of external engineering contractors
• Identifyand advance system-level improvements proactively with a recommendation and a plan not merely an observation
• Build documentation and operational foundations designed to scale beyond any individual project

What Were Looking For:

• 8 years of experience spanning software engineering cloud infrastructure and technical program or product management
• Active daily use of LLM-based AI tools (Claude Gemini or equivalent) as a core part of your professional workflow not familiarity fluency
• Demonstrated ability to architect and own GCP infrastructure end-to-end without external direction
• Proven capacity to move from an ambiguous problem statement to a structured technical plan independently
• Strong ability to engage cross-functional business stakeholdersidentifythe root of what theyactually need and translate that into technically sound specifications
• Experience writing PRDs architecture documents and detailed project scopes
• Bachelors degree;Mastersdegree strongly preferred

Preferred

• Familiarity with mobile development constraints and cross-platform frameworks
• Experience with Salesforce integrations or CRM-adjacent technical work
• Experience directing or managing external engineering contractors or vendors
• Background in MedTech health IT or a regulated industry

What Sets the Best Candidates Apart

• You leave every system document and process better than you found it consistently without being asked
• You bring fully-formedideas and recommendations not status updates awaiting direction
• You think in systems and design for scale not just for the immediate ask
• You are genuinely invested in arriving at the best answer and will push back respectfully and constructively when you believe a better one exists
• You are energized by fast-moving resource-constrained environments where ownership is totaland the problems are genuinely novel

A candidates final salary offer will be based on their skills education work location and experience and thus it may differ from the posted range. Compensation may also include bonuses consistent with Ceribells corporate compensation plan. Note the above description is not all-encompassing and Ceribell reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time.

In addition to your base compensation Ceribell offers eligible employees the following:

• Performance-based incentive compensation (varies by role)
• Equity opportunities
• 100% Employer paid Health Benefits for Employees
• 50% - 70% Employer paid Health Dental & Vision for dependents (depending on plan selection)
• 100% paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) with a generous company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a discount
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Flexible paid time off
• 13 Paid Holidays 3 Company Wellness Days
• Excellent parental leave policy
• Fantastic culture with tremendous career advancement opportunities
• Joining a mission-minded organization!

Application Deadline: Ongoing

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