Engineering Manager - Blood Platform

Caris Life Sciences•Irving, TX

14d

About The Position

Caris Life Sciences is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its blood-platform engineering team, supporting the laboratory information systems behind Caris Assure and Caris Detect blood operations. The team is growing alongside the blood product roadmap and works closely with a Product Manager counterpart. The role is part of the Clinical Software Engineering organization and reports to the Senior Director, Clinical Software Engineering. This is a player-coach position responsible for delivery, quality, and operational health for a front-line platform team, 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 supervision, disciplined change control, and engineering standards that meet those obligations. The engineering environment 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 current FDA Computer Software Assurance guidance. Modernization of established systems is active, funded work, and the manager is accountable for making automation-first practices part of daily operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
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 apply 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.
Demonstrated ability to remain technically engaged while managing, including 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 absorb 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 maintain engineering standards for testing, documentation, and observability.
Run the team using an automation-first operating model, make AI-assisted workflows standard daily practice, and treat automated test and evidence coverage as a first-class delivery responsibility.
Onboard engineers to the regulated environment, including structured knowledge transfer when new 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 team health at a sustainable pace through balanced on-call and support load, 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.
Participate in escalation rotations and respond after hours to emergency production issues as required.
Travel periodically to other Caris sites or partner locations as required.