Director of Engineering na MLabs Ltd

Director of Engineering

Location: New York, NY

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (NYC only)

About the Role

Our client, a global venture builder that empowers founders to launch and scale transformative healthcare companies, is seeking an ambitious, product-minded Director of Engineering. The client is deeply dedicated to launching AI-native healthcare ventures.

In this senior technical leadership role, you will be responsible for originating, leading, and delivering on critical 0-to-1 agentic development projects across the company. You'll act as a technologist-investor, redefining how AI startups are built in healthcare by leveraging the client's dense repository of healthtech venture knowledge.

What You’ll Do

• Redefine how AI startups are built in healthcare by designing and shipping LLM-based technologies to unlock internal healthtech venture knowledge.
• Architect the first AI-native healthcare venture builder, leading projects in areas like healthcare domain agentic deep research and LLM-led knowledge graph construction.
• Create global patient impact by sourcing, assessing, inspiring, and building alongside exceptional founders to launch enduring, transformative health technology companies.
• Constantly raise the bar on the level of technical sophistication offered to their founders.
• Note: Interested and qualified candidates may have the opportunity to hire and manage additional engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience, primarily as an Individual Contributor (IC) in full-stack engineering. Exceptions can be made for extremely talented high-flyers.
• 6+ years in a senior technical role at a major venture-backed startup. Bonus points for founding a startup (0-to-1 experience) or having an investment background.
• Expert in Python (including frameworks like asyncio, FastAPI, PyTorch) and at least one agentic framework (e.g., LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, autogen).
• Proficient in the modern data stack (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Flask, Pydantic, Pytorch, etc.).
• Experience building stateful agentic workflows, MCPs, and LLM tool hooks (knowledge graphs/semantic search is a bonus).
• Code is in production at global organizations or used by thousands/millions of individuals.
• Technical degree (CS, Math, Physics) from a top university.
• Relentless, startup-native technologist with a high tolerance for ambiguity and high speed of execution.

Benefits

• Salary: $180K - $220K (Based on quality and experience).
• Equity: To be discussed with the Hiring Manager (complex structure).
• Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Work Policy: Hybrid setup, with mandatory work in the New York City office.

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

Commitment to Equality and Accessibility:

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