sully-ai - Head of Engineering
Requirements
• 7+ years of startup/founding experience in a high-growth early-stage start-up, or founder/co-founder experience bringing SaaS products from ideation to enterprise scale. • Experience in high-intensity environments such as YC-backed startups, early-stage companies, or zero-to-one teams where speed and judgment matter. • Comfort with ambiguity. You turn incomplete product direction into clear technical plans and ship without a heavy process. • Bias toward leverage and simplicity. You choose durable solutions and know when to optimize versus when to ship. • KEY RESULTS (FIRST 90 DAYS) • Take full ownership of the assigned engineering domain. • Ensure end-to-end observability and alerting for core workflows. • Define the domain's key performance, reliability, and quality metrics. • Identify and ship at least one high-impact improvement. • Establish execution cadence, priorities, and quality standards. • Entrepreneurial to your core: You think in outcomes, thrive in chaos, and take ownership without limits • Mission-obsessed: You’re here to save lives, not just ship features — patients and doctors are your why. • Impact-driven & fast-moving: You sprint toward hard problems and ship with sharp judgment. • Elite teammate: You raise the bar through high standards, direct feedback, and craft excellence.
Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end engineering execution for your domain, from architecture and roadmap through delivery and reliability. • Drive step-function latency reductions, targeting at least 50 percent improvements across note generation and decision-support workflows where applicable. • Design and operate robust observability, metrics, and model-selection systems to ensure consistent performance at scale. • Lead domain-specific execution rituals, including daily and weekly standups, backlog ownership in Linear, and tight cross-functional coordination. • Translate product goals into clear dependencies, timelines, and deliverables to keep teams unblocked and shipping. • Operationalize continuous quality evaluation pipelines to improve accuracy, completeness, and reliability of outputs. • Set and enforce engineering best practices across your stack, including code quality, reviews, on-call standards, and operational rigor.
Benefits
• Estimated Base Salary $250K – $350K • Please Note: We have set up limits for applications at Sully.ai to ensure that candidates are focusing their best efforts into roles they are interested and qualified in. • Please Note • The following limits apply to applications for all our jobs: • Candidates may not apply more than 3 times in any 30 day span for any job. • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 365 days if not presented with an offer. • These rules do not apply if you are sourced. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Please be aware that, unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to sponsor new visas. • For more than 1 year • I am a previous founder • Series C or later • (Everything else = architecture, planning, hiring, team management, cross-team coordination, code reviews, stakeholder communication, process) • 90% coding / 10% everything else • 60% coding / 40% everything else • 20% coding / 80% everything else • 10% coding / 90% everything else • Sully.ai may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.
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