About the Role
Ambience is hiring a Technical Lead Manager of Product Engineering to lead and scale core engineering teams in building a category-defining AI platform for healthcare. This role involves partnering with product, design, and clinical teams to translate ambitious ideas into scalable, maintainable production systems. The position is responsible for growing the team, building high-functioning pods, and delivering features that impact clinician efficiency and patient outcomes, while shaping organizational design, culture, and process.
Responsibilities
- Help grow and shape a high-performing engineering group by hiring, onboarding, and developing strong ICs.
- Partner closely with recruiting and leverage personal network to attract and close exceptional talent.
- Architect the engineering team for high ownership and product velocity.
- Set clear team charters, rituals, and scopes of responsibility.
- Ship major customer-facing initiatives that expand Ambience’s enterprise footprint.
- Raise the bar on quality and performance.
- Mentor Engineering Managers or Technical Leads.
- Create pathways for career growth.
- Promote a culture of feedback, execution, and high agency.
- Lead on architecture, code quality, release reliability, and data integrity.
- Establish best practices and ensure consistency across pods.
- Collaborate deeply with PM, Design, and Clinical SMEs to ensure strong planning, discovery, and delivery practices across the product lifecycle.
- Translate high-level business goals into actionable plans.
- Unblock teams and deliver results in fast-moving and uncertain environments.
Requirements
- Experienced hiring manager with a track record of hiring 7+ engineers.
- Experience building teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing engineers.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems.
- Shipped backend and full-stack features in SaaS environments.
- Ability to go deep on technical decisions when needed.
- Experience collaborating with PM and Design.
- Ability to think in terms of user outcomes.
- Ensure the team is building the right thing.
- Pride in delivering on ambitious goals.
- Ability to align a team, debug process issues, and accelerate throughput.
- Build inclusive teams with strong feedback and trust cultures.
- Lead with empathy.
- Set a high bar for engineering maturity and ownership.
- Excited by the vision to improve healthcare through AI.
- Motivated by the opportunity to build a platform that makes a real-world impact.
Skills
- AI
- Distributed systems
- Backend development
- Full-stack development
- SaaS
- Product management collaboration
- Team leadership
- Hiring
- Mentoring
- Architecture
- Code quality
- Release reliability
- Data integrity
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- Remote
- San Francisco HQ
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years managing engineers
Salary/Compensations
- $265,000–$325,000 per year, exclusive of equity
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- Remote-friendly culture
- Full equipment provisioning
- Parental leave
- Annual company-wide off-sites
- Team off-sites
- Regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings
- Travel, lodging, and meals covered for events
- Flexible time off with no annual cap
- Company-wide holidays
- Annual holiday shutdown from December 24–January 1
About the Company
- Ambience is building the AI intelligence platform that restores humanity to healthcare and drives meaningful ROI for health systems across the country.
- Our technology helps providers focus on delivering great care by removing the administrative burden that pulls them away from patients and away from their most impactful work.
- Ambience delivers real-time coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support across ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings at the top health systems in North America.
- Our teams operate relentlessly with extreme ownership to build the best solutions for our health system partners.
- We value candor, positivity and deep thought.
- Ambience was ranked #1 for Improving the Clinician Experience in the KLAS Research Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report.
- Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech.
- Named one of the best AI companies in healthcare by Inc.
- Selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025.
- Backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, and Kleiner Perkins.
Equal Opportunity
- Ambience Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
- We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
- Ambience is committed to supporting every candidate’s ability to fully participate in our hiring process.
- If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews, please reach out to our Recruiting team at accommodations@ambiencehealthcare.com.
- We’ll handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.
