Director of Engineering

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Healthtech • Information Technology • Internet of Things
AI that actually understands healthcare is transforming operations, one workflow at a time.
The Role
Leads Autonomize AI’s India engineering organization, partnering with the CTO and executive team to scale teams, improve engineering culture, and own platform and solution delivery. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers and managers, overseeing backend, AI/ML, quality, and CloudOps teams, ensuring release quality and reliability, managing customer deployments, and maintaining delivery velocity during hypergrowth.
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About Autonomize AI
Autonomize AI is revolutionizing healthcare by streamlining knowledge workflows with AI. We reduce administrative burdens and elevate outcomes, empowering professionals to focus on what truly matters — improving lives. We're growing fast and looking for bold, driven teammates to join us.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader that will help drive the entire engineering operations of our platform and solution engineering teams.   In charge of the entire India labs this role is a very high visibility role with accountability to the Autonomize leadership team, directly partnering with the CTO.  You will be directly responsible for driving engineering excellence across product and solution delivery, quality assurance, IT and cloud operations,  collaboration amongst various teams with deep humility, hunger and passion to build a world class engineering team in India.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead people, first: This is fundamentally a people leadership role. You will grow, mentor, and inspire our high-performing engineering organization  — hiring exceptional talent, coaching engineers and engineering managers, and investing deeply in their growth.
  • Be Accountable: As the senior-most engineering leader in Bangalore, you will operate with full accountability to Autonomize's US leadership team — reporting into the CTO and partnering closely with the CEO and executive staff on strategy, execution, and outcomes.
  • Clarity of mission: You will create the conditions for engineers to do the best work of their careers: clarity of mission, autonomy in execution, high standards, and psychological safety to take risks with innovations.
  • Own Engineering Delivery: Own the entire engineering team operations and delivery of platform and solutions. Own and manage the quality engineering as well as ensure reliability across all customer deployments.
  • Grow the team: Attract, grow, and retain world-class engineering talent across backend, AI/ML, and Quality and CloudOps. Establish the hiring bar, engineering culture, and mentorship practices.
  • Lead quality and release management: Be accountable for the quality, velocity, and reliability of every release we ship.
  • Manage customer engagements:  Ensure customer delivery teams execute successfully on top of our platform components, meeting timelines and quality expectations.

You’re a fit, if you have

  • Proven track record of scaling  teams or orgs (100–500+ engineers)
  • You know how to keep the culture, quality and velocity intact as the team grows in hypergrowth phase
  • Have success in growing teams with AI Native and a strong engineering mindset
  • Startup or 0→1 experience building high-performance teams with first-principles thinking
  • Shipped serious, production grade platforms, data and AI/ML infrastructure that got deployed at customer in production
  • Hunger without ego. You care intensely about the outcomes, not the individual credit. You give your team the spotlight and take the heat when  things go wrong.
  • Able to thrive in a messy, ambiguous and high-speed environments where products are prototyped, assembled and shipped rapidly
What We Offer
  • A chance to make a real impact in the future of healthcare
  • Autonomy, ownership, and the ability to chart your own growth path
  • Competitive compensation and benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses.

Skills Required

  • Proven experience scaling engineering teams or organizations of 100–500+ engineers
  • Experience preserving culture, quality, and velocity during hypergrowth
  • Experience building AI-native teams with a strong engineering mindset
  • Startup or 0-to-1 experience building high-performance teams
  • Experience shipping production-grade platforms, data infrastructure, and AI/ML infrastructure deployed to customers
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where products are rapidly prototyped and shipped
  • Outcome-focused, humble leadership style with willingness to take accountability
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The Company
HQ: Austin, Texas
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Autonomize AI Agents & Copilots organize, contextualize and summarize unstructured data to reduce the administrative burden for healthcare knowledge workers to make data-driven decisions and improve patient outcomes. Our customers include health plans, providers and life sciences companies. Unlike generic AI systems retrofitted for healthcare, Autonomize deeply understands medical contexts, terminologies, and operational nuances. Our healthcare-focused AI Agents & Copilots augment knowledge work, drastically reducing administrative burden. Care management teams spend 78% less time per case, achieving an impressive 85% boost in case review efficiency. Prior authorization processes that traditionally take 20-30 minutes shrink to mere seconds, accompanied by an 80% reduction in manual errors, saving millions of dollars annually. Our AI Agents turn chaotic, unstructured healthcare data—clinical notes, PDFs, faxes, and claims—into structured, contextual information that informs decisions and actions. This has driven substantial real-world impact: organizations using Autonomize experience a 92% reduction in manual effort for care gaps and HEDIS chart reviews, dramatically improving compliance and STAR ratings. Autonomize AI is purpose-built for healthcare, transforming healthcare operations one workflow at a time through AI-native solutions that deliver immediate, scalable impact.

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