[Remote] Director of Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clinical Ink is a global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the engineering team, manage delivery, and collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure successful product development and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery: turn product and regulatory intent into a sequenced, achievable plan; hit the submission and release milestones
• Hire, grow, and lead the engineering team — set the bar, run the loop, develop people, and shape a culture of ownership and impact
• Partner with the Principal Engineer on architecture and significant-change decisions; make the build-vs-buy and resourcing calls
• Be the engineering voice to product, clinical, regulatory/QMS, and execs — translate in both directions and keep commitments honest
• Stand up the reliability practice as the platform heads to production: SLOs and error budgets, observability, incident response, and a humane on-call — operational maturity that scales with the product
• Own the infra/cloud spend and resourcing trade-offs
• Steward process that helps, not hinders: the quality system, change control, and CI controls should make safe shipping faster, not slower
• Champion AI-augmented engineering as a force-multiplier for a small team, with verification and safety built in

Skills

• Experience leading engineering teams that shipped real software, with a credible technical foundation (you came up through backend/platform or can hold your own there)
• A track record of delivering under constraints — milestones, small teams, competing priorities — without burning the team out
• Strong judgment on architecture and trade-offs; you can dive into a design review and add signal
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort building in a regulated, safety-critical, AI-augmented environment
• Regulated / health software (SaMD, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, HIPAA, FDA pathways)
• Scaling a team from a handful of engineers; standing up hiring and on-call
• Hands-on history with our stack (Python/FastAPI/AWS) or healthcare data (FHIR, wearables)

Company Overview

Clinical Ink develops electronic documents recording software for recording source data on mobile devices during clinical trials. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.clinicalink.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Clinical ink has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 5 in 2024, 4 in 2022, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.