Director of Engineering, HeartFlow
Clinical Products
$220-290k
+ Cash bonus and stock options
3 days a week in office
Medical equipment manufacturing
Be an early applicant
Medical equipment manufacturing
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-290k
+ Cash bonus and stock options
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To save lives, improve the patient experience and reduce the overall costs of care.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience managing managers and leading multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
- Track record of successful planning, consistent execution, and on-time delivery of complex software projects
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with an ability to align engineering outcomes to business priorities
- Experience in turning complex data and algorithms into intuitive, interactive visual experiences
- Strong background in UI/UX-driven development, data visualization, or real-time rendering
- Practical experience of turning research-developed algorithms into production-grade software
- Solid understanding of MLOps, cloud-native development, and scalable architectures
- Deep knowledge of software development best practices: testing, CI/CD, DevOps, agile methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
- Experience with medical applications or other regulated industries. Direct experience with Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is highly desired
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructures (Amazon Web Services or equivalent)
- Nice-to-have: experience with medical imaging or 3D visualization
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field; advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience in a software company
- Experience shipping and maintaining commercial software products that combine ML models with engaging user interfaces
- 5+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years managing engineering managers and growing multi-team organizations
What the job involves
- The Director, Engineering - Clinical Products will lead the engineering teams building sophisticated cloud applications supporting HeartFlow FFRct, Roadmap, Plaque, and other new products
- These tools empower clinicians with advanced insights, data, and visualizations derived from CCTA images through intuitive and interactive user experiences
- This role is responsible for leading through engineering managers, scaling high-performing teams, and driving both the strategic direction and operational execution of our clinical products
- The ideal candidate has a strong background in building and scaling engineering organizations, driving team planning and delivery, and ensuring the technical and operational excellence required in a regulated healthcare environment
- You will work alongside passionate software engineers, UI/UX designers, product managers and research scientists to deliver future generations of Heartflow’s AI-based products
- As both a technical and people leader, you will play a critical role in scaling our organization and advancing our technology
- Lead and grow multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, setting clear goals and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives
- Drive successful quarterly and long-range planning efforts, balancing innovation with execution, and ensuring engineering teams consistently meet delivery commitments
- Ensure engineering teams are executing with high quality, predictable velocity, and attention to operational reliability
- Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering and management talent; build an inclusive, high-performance team culture
- Manage and grow an organization of engineering teams that span algorithm development, visualizations, results and report generation
- Mentor and guide engineering managers in their career development and technical growth
- Provide technical leadership across medical device software, including visualization, UI architecture, cloud services, algorithm development and integration
- Collaborate with product, clinical, design, and research teams to build seamless and effective user experiences that translate complex data into actionable insights
- Partner with other engineering leaders to evolve our system architecture and ensure cross-team alignment and technical coherence
- Contribute hands-on to design when appropriate, especially in areas of high impact such as architecture, rendering pipelines, or clinical data visualization
Our take
HeartFlow was founded in 2007 and is a medical equipment manufacturer that uses CT-scanned 3D modelling to assess and analyze a patient's arteries. This noninvasive process can help assess the risks of heart disease and strategize the appropriate treatment.
HeartFlow has had a long history of awards and innovations. In 2021, it brought its technology to the NHS in England and in October 2022, introduced a plaque analysis service. As time has gone on, Heartflow has indicated that it is keeping up with technological advances and finding new ways to provide heart health services through them.
HeartFlow successfully launched its IPO in 2021 but faced a setback when its merger with Longview Acquisitions was called off in 2022 due to unfavourable market conditions. Despite this, the company has made a strong comeback and recently unveiled its next-generation plaque analysis AI, demonstrating its continued commitment to innovation and growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Mar 2025
$98m
CONVERTIBLE
Apr 2023
$215m
SERIES F
Total funding: $980.6m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Health (90% of premium paid by HeartFlow)
- Stock options to all employees
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Lounge featuring collaboration space, pinball, foosball, and ping pong
- Free snacks and drinks and subsidized health food
- Friday run/walk program - get fit, socialize and earn rewards
- Events throughout the year: Ironman competition, blood drive, sports league play (kickball, beach volleyball, etc), waffle bar, BBQs, biometrics assessment, and more!
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
John Farquhar
(CEO)Joined HeartFlow in 2021 as the President and Chief Operating Officer and became the CEO in 2022. Prior to this, they were the VP and General Manager at Medtronic. They also spent 5 years as a Professional Football Player in the NFL.
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