Director of AI-Driven Healthcare Engineering

Pennant Services

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Pennant Services is seeking an experienced, hands-on Director of Engineering to lead the Application Development team building products for our post-acute healthcare. Reporting to the Senior VP of Digital, you will define architecture, delivery, and AI-native practices, mentor a small team, and partner with Product, Data, IT, and Operations to move quickly, securely, and reliably in a healthcare setting.

You will champion AI coding agents, ensure HIPAA-grade engineering, observability, cost

Qualifications

8+ years of software engineering experience with people management.
Experience leading AI-assisted development in startup or growth-stage company.
Experience shipping production software with AI coding agents.
Designed and operated cloud-hosted multi-service systems with third-party integrations.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction of all digital products and platform roadmap.
Lead architecture and delivery systems; manage people and AI-native practice.
Set HIPAA-grade engineering standards and secure data handling.
Ensure observability, on-call, incident response, and cost management.
Recruit, hire, mentor engineers and define career paths.
Represent Application Development with clinical, operations, finance and IT leaders.