About the role

Engineering Manager at Tali AI overseeing a team of engineers to enhance healthcare accessibility. Lead growth, performance, and technical direction in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

Own growth, performance, 1:1s, and the talent bar for a team of engineers (software, ML, and infrastructure).
Own outcomes end to end. Your team builds with PM, design, CS, and sales in the same room. No walls, no throwing work over the fence.
Unblock people day in and day out: the small decisions on product, technology, and someone's growth that keep a team moving.
Coach the person, not just the work. Debug the root cause once, so the person ends up on a self-improving path.
Set clarity and context. Take a messy situation and boil it down to the few things the team must understand to paddle in the same direction.
Model the system, not the symptom. When something is underperforming, look past the obvious answer to the systemic cause: the flows, the bottlenecks, the rates of change, or how people work.
Sustain urgency without burning people out. Calibrate the right level of energy and put it back into the system.
Lead an AI-native team: contribute to re-inventing how work gets done in the software industry. Decompose ambiguous goals into AI-executable work, eval what comes out, identify leverage points for durable investments in AI infrastructure, and coach your team to do the same.
Raise the bar and build a repeatable way of managing. We need someone who innovates on the craft, not someone who runs ceremonies.

7+ years of experience in engineering, including 2+ as a manager and 5+ years as an IC engineer. You've managed people who visibly grew, levelled up, got promoted, or went on to lead. Ideally, you've built or reshaped how a team works (rituals, tooling, culture, process) to solve real business problems.
Player-coach at a startup or scale-up. You scaled a small, high-output team while staying close to the work. Technical depth across the stack is a must. You can still drop into technical work when that’s the best use of your time.
You reason from first principles. Your use of best practices, frameworks, or playbooks is judicious. You’re comfortable putting them aside when they're not a right fit. Your judgement is your ultimate source of value, and building the judgement of others is how you work through others.
Radical Candor. You can take hard feedback, sit with it, and change your mind if necessary. You can deliver hard feedback while remaining radically caring about the human on the other side. This is the trait we trust most.
Experience in a regulated industry is an asset (healthcare, finance, or similar).

Flexible work hours
Comprehensive health and wellness coverage from day one, including unmetered wellness days
Competitive PTO, including winter shutdown Dec 25 - Jan 1, birthdays and Taliversaries, and 'extra long' long weekends
$2000 annually in "Knowledge Dollars" to learn, grow, and level up
Quarterly socials & company outings that bring our team together beyond the day-to-day