Head of Engineering

Kinetic Trials•New York City, NY

26d•Onsite

About The Position

Kinetic Trials is building the agentic operating platform for clinical trial operations. We partner with site management organizations, academic medical centers, health systems and independent trial sites to drive revenue, automate administrative tasks and augment people-centric workflows. Our goal is to accelerate the drug development lifecycle and make a tangible impact on getting promising therapies into the hands of patients faster. We're backed by top-tier early stage investors (previously backed Palantir, Lyft, Gitlab, Square) and working closely with design partners to build the product. The Role We're looking for a Head of Engineering to own our technical direction and accelerate product development alongside our design partners. This is a hands-on building role—you'll be writing code daily while shaping architecture and hiring decisions that will define the company for years to come. As we grow, this role has a clear path to CTO.

Requirements

3 to 5+ years of software engineering experience
Hands-on experience building with LLMs and agentic AI systems
Proficient with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to maximize velocity
Strong full-stack skills
Bias toward shipping over perfection; comfortable with ambiguity
Excited by healthcare/life sciences impact (domain experience not required)

Responsibilities

Own the full technical stack end-to-end (frontend, backend, AI/LLM integration, infrastructure)
Work directly with the CEO and design partners to translate customer needs into product - shipping quickly and iteratively
Architect agentic AI systems that automate complex, people-centric workflows
Make foundational architecture decisions for scale
Eventually hire and lead the engineering team