Dannce.ai is seeking a Head of Engineering who thrives in a player-coach role—someone who can lead by example, build production-ready systems, and guide a small team of talented engineers. You’ll shape the first commercial product we develop spanning the core technical foundation of our clinical-grade, AI-powered video-based monitoring platform, including our mobile capture app, cloud video analysis pipeline, and EHR-integrated clinician dashboard. This is a high-leverage opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who is excited to build real-world healthcare tools that matter.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement critical systems across the full stack from cloud backends that process patient videos to clinical-facing interfaces.
• Own and evolve our technical roadmap, prioritizing scalable, compliant systems that support rapid iteration and clinical reliability.
• Lead a small team (2-3 engineers), providing mentorship, code reviews, technical guidance, and growth opportunities.
• Balance speed and rigor by prototyping fast, then productizing with best practices, testing, and documentation.
• Collaborate closely with clinicians, product leaders, and ML researchers to translate user needs into elegant technical solutions.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, especially around quality, maintainability, and compliance.
• Evaluate and introduce modern tools, frameworks, and best practices that raise engineering quality and velocity.
• Roll up your sleeves—when things need building you’re first in the codebase.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with 3–5 years in a technical leadership or team lead role.
• Fluent in modern stacks—Python, cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD, APIs supporting web and mobile applications, etc.
• Scrappy, pragmatic mindset: you can ship fast and refactor later without losing sight of long-term goals.
• Excellent communication skills—you can align technical work with product and clinical needs.
• Comfortable executing in startup environments where ambiguity is the norm, impact is immediate, and resourcefulness is essential.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience building clinical or regulated software.
• Familiarity with camera frameworks, pose estimation, motion capture, or biomechanics.
• Experience integrating with EHRs (e.g., Epic, FHIR).
• Background in digital health, neurology, or ML-powered healthcare products.

About Dannce.ai:

Dannce.ai is transforming neurological care and drug development through AI-powered movement analysis. Our deep learning platform reconstructs patient movements in 3D, providing high-resolution, quantifiable insights to clinicians and researchers. By automating movement disorder assessments, we help improve diagnosis, track disease progression, and detect subtle drug effects that traditional methods often miss. Backed by top investors and founded by experts from Duke and Harvard, we are building the future of AI-driven neurological healthcare.