Engineering Director

Qualified Health PBC•Palo Alto, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we’re redefining what’s possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring—working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you’re ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we’d 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.

Requirements

10–15+ 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 10–15+ 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

Nice To Haves

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

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