Skip to content

Director – Engineering – Clinical Products
Company | HeartFlow |
---|
Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
---|
Salary | $220000 – $290000 |
---|
Type | Full-Time |
---|
Degrees | |
---|
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
---|
Requirements
- 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).
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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Nice-to-have: experience with medical imaging or 3D visualization.