Engineering Manager - Blood Platform

Caris Life Sciences•Irving, TX

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About The Position

Caris Life Sciences is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the blood-platform engineering team responsible for laboratory information systems supporting Caris Assure and Caris Detect blood operations. The team is growing alongside the blood product roadmap and works closely with a paired Product Manager. The manager leads a front-line team in the Clinical Software Engineering organization and reports to the Senior Director, Clinical Software Engineering. This is a player-coach role accountable for delivery, quality, and operational health while remaining technically engaged in design and code review. The platforms are live, business-critical clinical systems subject to SOX financial controls and FDA regulatory requirements. The manager is accountable for team supervision, change-control discipline, and engineering standards. The engineering organization uses AI coding assistants and agentic workflows across design, implementation, and test generation; characterization tests and golden-master replay validation provide evidence for regulated changes. Delivery uses CI/CD, application-level observability, and risk-based release governance aligned with FDA Computer Software Assurance guidance. Modernization is active, funded work, and the manager is responsible for making automation-first practices routine. The role may involve periodic travel to other Caris sites or partner locations. After-hours emergency production response and participation in escalation rotations may be required. Candidates must successfully complete the pre-employment process, which includes a criminal background check, drug screening, a credit check where applicable, and reference verification.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
At least 2 years of direct people-management or formal team-lead responsibility for a production software team.
Experience delivering and operating software subject to FDA, SOX, CLIA, HIPAA, or equivalent regulated-environment controls.
Experience managing delivery with agile or scrum practices, including planning, estimation, and stakeholder communication.
Experience hiring and onboarding software engineers.
Experience leading teams that use automation and AI-assisted engineering practices in daily delivery, including automated testing, CI/CD, and scripted operations.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, clinical laboratory, diagnostics, or life sciences software environments.
Ability to remain technically engaged while managing, with substantive contributions to design review, code review, and architectural decisions on a live production system.
Experience standing up or reshaping a team while maintaining delivery continuity.
Experience managing teams that operate production systems with formal on-call rotations.
Familiarity with structured knowledge-transfer practices when teams take on existing platform scope.

Responsibilities

Manage a front-line software engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and career development.
Own platform delivery, including sprint planning, prioritization with the paired Product Manager, estimation, and predictable release execution under regulated change control.
Participate in design and architecture reviews, conduct code reviews at a meaningful cadence, and uphold engineering standards for testing, documentation, and observability.
Run the team using an automation-first operating model, treating recurring manual engineering and operational work as defects to eliminate, using AI-assisted workflows in daily practice, and making automated test and evidence coverage a delivery responsibility.
Onboard engineers to the regulated environment, including structured knowledge transfer when team members take on existing platform scope.
Partner with Application Site-Reliability Engineering on production readiness, incident response, and post-incident remediation, while keeping production access within segregation-of-duties requirements.
Maintain sustainable team health through balanced on-call and support loads, managed work-in-progress, and early escalation of capacity risks.
Provide team-level facts—including throughput, support load, and skill coverage—for quarterly capacity and hiring planning.
Maintain change-control records, review evidence, and documentation to SOX and FDA standards for team output.
Embed secure SDLC practices, including OWASP Top Ten awareness in design and code review and early coordination of penetration testing.
Respond to emergency production issues after hours and participate in escalation rotations as required.
Travel periodically to other Caris sites or partner locations as required.