Sr. Software Engineer

About Cleerly

We’re Cleerly – a healthcare company that’s revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. We were founded in 2017 by one of the world’s leading cardiologists and are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders. We raised $223M in Series C funding in 2022 which has enabled rapid growth and continued support of our mission. In December 2024 we received an additional $106M in a Series C extension funding. Most of our teams work remotely and have access to our offices in Denver, Colorado, New, York, New York, Dallas, Texas, and Lisbon, Portugal with some roles requiring you to be on-site in a location. 

Cleerly has created a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions with the goal of helping prevent heart attacks. Our technology goes beyond traditional measures of heart disease by enabling comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, in each of the heart arteries. Cleerly’s solutions are supported by more than a decade of performing some of the world’s largest clinical trials to identify important findings beyond symptoms that increase a person’s risk of heart attacks. 

At Cleerly, we collaborate digitally and use a wide variety of systems. Our people use Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom Video, prior experience in these areas is a plus. Role or department specific technology needs may vary and will be listed as requirements in the job description. 

About the Opportunity

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive key technical initiatives across our computational imaging pipeline. In this high-impact role, you'll own the complex systems responsible for deploying, scaling, and monitoring our regulated AI algorithms end-to-end. You will influence the architecture of our system, ensuring our solutions meet medical standards for quality and performance, while mentoring other engineers and helping shape our technical culture.

About the Team

You will join our expert Computational Imaging team, where we develop sophisticated algorithms to enhance and improve medical imaging. We are focused on improving the quality and clinical value of medical images, creating powerful, extra software components that correct artifacts, standardize data, and ensure the utmost precision before the final analysis. Our work is essential for elevating the reliability and accuracy of Cleerly’s regulated products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy scalable AI services and computational imaging pipelines to production, ensuring robust, high-availability infrastructure for our machine learning algorithms.
• Design extensible system architectures and make pragmatic trade-offs that balance performance, security, and maintainability.
• Own full lifecycle delivery of complex features, from architectural planning and API design to implementation and post-release observability.
• Ensure high availability and observability of our services; improve alerting, logging, and incident response across the stack.
• Set and uphold strong engineering standards via code reviews, technical mentorship, and design documentation.
• Lead technical design reviews and system decomposition efforts across teams.
• Proactively identify risks and gaps in operational or architectural resilience, and drive durable improvements.
• Collaborate closely across AI and engineering to reduce knowledge silos and ensure continuity in critical systems through cross-training and documentation.
• Design and implement robust testing mechanism and validation strategies to ensure compliance with our Quality Management System and regulatory standards 
• Contribute to the necessary technical documentation required for regulatory submissions.

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8–12 years of software engineering experience, with expertise in AI production systems (Python, PyTorch) and data services (SQL, Postgres, NoSQL, Redis or similar).
• Demonstrable capability in designing, implementing, and securing RESTful web services
• Experience in MLOps orchestration and cloud deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with AWS, GitHub, and continuous integration pipelines
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering scalable systems in production environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar through reviews and design feedback.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Experience designing for observability and operational excellence (e.g., logs, alerts, dashboards, runbooks).
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity across product, engineering, and business stakeholders.

Preferred:

• Experience designing and optimizing end-to-end medical imaging pipelines in a production environment and familiarity with HIPAA/HITRUST security requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Computer Vision and Deep Learning techniques used for medical image processing.

The base salary range for this role varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks.

• Candidates located in higher-cost labor markets, including California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC represent the middle to high end of the range, while candidates located in all other U.S. locations represent the low to middle end of the range.
• Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

This role is eligible for a 15% target annual bonus, resulting in the following base salary and Total Target Compensation (TTC) ranges:

• Base Salary: $153,000 - $179,000
• TTC: $176,000 - $206,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay, commission, bonuses, etc.) Additionally, stock options, paid benefits, and employee perks are part of your total rewards.

Working at Cleerly takes HEART. Discover our Core Values:

• H: Humility- be a servant leader
• E: Excellence- deliver world-changing results
• A: Accountability- do what you say; expect the same from others
• R: Remarkable- inspire & innovate with impact
• T: Teamwork- together we win

Don’t meet 100 percent of the qualifications? Apply anyway and help us diversify our candidate pool and workforce. We value experience, whether gained formally or informally on the job or through other experiences. Job duties, activities and responsibilities are subject to change by our company.

OUR COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

For more information see our Privacy Policy (https://cleerlyhealth.com/privacy-policy). All official emails will come from @cleerlyhealth.com email accounts. 

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