Senior Engineering Manager - Brain Health

Senior Engineering Manager - Brain Health Beware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use "@hingehealth.com http://hingehealth.com" emails. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to security@hingehealth.com. The Opportunity Join the team transforming how we treat chronic pain by addressing its critical mental health comorbidities. As the Senior Engineering Manager for Brain Health, you will lead the development of agentic AI systems that power pain reprocessing therapy and mindfulness interventions. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team to build improved treatment experiences grounded in the latest science, helping members retrain how their brain and nervous system process pain. In this high-impact role, you will collaborate with senior leadership, product management, and clinical teams to architect a unified education platform and conversational therapy bots that demonstrate true emotional intelligence. You will bridge the gap between technological capabilities and therapeutic best practices, ensuring our solutions effectively complement physical therapy to address the root causes of persistent pain. WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH - Build next-generation therapeutic AI agents that deliver personalized pain reprocessing and mindfulness interventions, ensuring clinical efficacy while maintaining engaging, empathetic user experiences. - Architect and scale a unified education platform that intelligently serves pain science content, tracks learning progress, and personalizes pathways to build member confidence in movement. - Develop the technical strategy for brain health initiatives, ensuring alignment between technological capabilities and therapeutic best practices in partnership with product and clinical stakeholders. - Design robust AI architectures for conversational therapy bots that maintain context over multiple sessions and adapt therapeutic approaches based on member progress. - Establish MLOps practices specific to mental health AI, including model monitoring for therapeutic effectiveness, safety guardrails, and compliance with healthcare standards. - Drive innovation in NLP and affective computing to enhance the therapeutic alliance between AI agents and members. - Build cross-functional partnerships with content creators, clinical psychologists, and data scientists to create a comprehensive brain health ecosystem. WHO YOU ARE - A Strategic Technical Leader: You have a proven track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and can navigate the ambiguity of building novel AI applications in a regulated healthcare environment. - A Hands-On Technologist: You take owner-operator pride in your stack. You stay close to the code, understand the nuances of your team's work, and are comfortable contributing to and reviewing pull requests. - A Cross-Functional Collaborator: You excel at bridging the gap between engineering, product, and clinical domains, translating complex therapeutic protocols into scalable technical solutions. - Mission-Driven: You are passionate about using technology to solve real-world health problems and are committed to building empathetic, patient-centric solutions. HINGE HEALTH HYBRID MODEL We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field - 5+ years of experience managing teams o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)