Head of Engineering

Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our valued client. This opportunity is for a position with their organization, not with People Culture Talent. We're excited to help connect talented professionals with this exceptional team!

The Role

A fast-growing clinical AI company — deploying frontier intelligence across the nation's top healthcare organizations — is looking for a Head of Engineering to help shape the future of applied AI in healthcare.

Backed by Mayo Clinic Platform and leading healthcare VCs, this healthcare AI startup has achieved $1M+ ARR in under 12 months and is now seeking a Head of Engineering to scale their engineering team and help build the infrastructure for clinical AI at enterprise scale.

The company building HOMER-1 — the first Clinical AI Machine for healthcare — is hiring a Head of Engineering to lead the team taking clinical AI from market leader in post-acute care to the standard for acute care nationwide.

What You’ll Own

• Lead core engineering work across the full stack (TypeScript, Python, AWS, Supabase/PostgreSQL), staying ~50% hands-on with architecture, code review, and technical scoping

• Scale and manage the existing engineering team (6 engineers in São Paulo) while hiring 2–3 US-based engineers to build out the NYC founding team

• Drive technical architecture decisions and build systems and processes that support enterprise-grade healthcare deployments

• Partner closely with the founders on product roadmap, R&D initiatives, and the company's near-term technical north star: a virtual hospital/hospice simulation lab using synthetic patients

• Champion engineering quality, reliability, and speed — Dart deploys across thousands of nurses in 2–3 weeks, and that differentiator lives in your hands

• Contribute to recruiting and interview processes across engineering and beyond as the team grows from ~11 to 15–20 by year-end

What You’ll Bring

• 6–10 years of engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of success as an engineering lead

• Experience leading small, high-performing engineering teams — and comfort being a builder first, manager second

• ~50% hands-on engineering in your most recent role; you're not looking to leave the code behind

• Startup experience (any stage) — you move fast, operate with autonomy, and don't need process to get things done

• First-principles thinking and the ability to operate in high-variability, trust-critical environments

• Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) experience is a strong plus — the ability to sit at the intersection of customer problems and technical solutions is exactly what this role calls for

• No healthcare background required; curiosity about clinical AI and patient impact is what matters

Compensation Band

Their openings span more than one career level. The starting salary for this role is $250,000 USD, with a range up to $350,000 USD, plus strong pre-seed equity on a 6-year vesting schedule. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.

Benefits

• ICHRA health benefits (best-in-class, flexible)

• Flex time off — not tracked, with a culture that trusts you to manage your time

• Monthly lunch cards (~$500/person) and informal morning team gatherings

• Annual company offsites in unique, off-the-grid locations

• Milestone events tied to company wins (go-karts, team outings, and more)

• In-person, collaborative culture in a spacious NYC office near Madison Square Garden

• Customer travel opportunities

About Our Client

Dart Health has built HOMER-1: the first Clinical AI Machine. Unlike companies focused on administrative automation or scheduling software, Dart focuses exclusively on clinical AI — tools that directly improve patient outcomes. Their platform monitors approximately 100,000 patients per week across post-acute and acute care settings, serving the largest home health and hospice enterprises in the US and partnering with Mayo Clinic as both a build partner and investor.

In under 12 months, Dart crossed $1M ARR and became the market leader in post-acute clinical AI. Backed by 43.io and Virtue VC, Dart's 11-person team is small by design and ambitious by nature.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the ground floor of a company solving genuinely hard problems — not just optimizing workflows, but building systems that affect how clinicians make decisions for real patients.