Head of Engineering, UAE
Job type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: Hybrid · AED 540000 - 660000 / year
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
At Sully.ai, We’re Building the Most Impactful Healthcare Company on Earth
We believe that access to a great doctor is a basic human right. Today, that’s not a reality. Our mission, One Human, One Doctor, drives us to build AI teammates that augment clinicians, solving the healthcare problems of delays, misdiagnoses, and burnout.
We’re hiring a Head of Engineering to own and scale Sully.ai’s core product efforts in the UAE, with full responsibility for architecture, execution, reliability, and performance across region-specific healthcare workflows, integrations, and regulatory requirements.
Own end-to-end engineering execution for your domain, from architecture and roadmap through delivery and reliability.
Drive step-function latency reductions, targeting at least 50 percent improvements across note generation and decision-support workflows where applicable.
Design and operate robust observability, metrics, and model-selection systems to ensure consistent performance at scale.
Lead domain-specific execution rituals including daily and weekly standups, backlog ownership in Linear, and tight cross-functional coordination.
Translate product goals into clear dependencies, timelines, and deliverables to keep teams unblocked and shipping.
Operationalize continuous quality evaluation pipelines to improve accuracy, completeness, and reliability of outputs.
Set and enforce engineering best practices across your stack, including code quality, reviews, on-call standards, and operational rigor.
Founder-level ownership mindset. You operate like the business depends on your decisions and execution.
Senior, hands-on engineering ability. You actively design systems, write and review production code, and set the technical bar by example.
Experience in high-intensity environments such as YC-backed startups, early-stage companies, or zero-to-one teams where speed and judgment matter.
Comfort with ambiguity. You turn incomplete product direction into clear technical plans and ship without heavy process.
Bias toward leverage and simplicity. You choose durable solutions and know when to optimize versus when to ship.
Nice-to-have:
Experience with FHIR/HL7 or EHR systems.
Background in real-time or near-real-time streaming, diarization, or structured-output pipelines.
Experience supporting front-end or extension-based integrations (web, mobile, browser extension).
Take full ownership of the assigned engineering domain.
Ensure end to end observability and alerting for core workflows.
Define the domain’s key performance, reliability, and quality metrics.
Identify and ship at least one high impact improvement.
Establish execution cadence, priorities, and quality standards.
🔥 Revolutionizing the antiquated $800B+ Healthcare market
🧠 50%+ of us are ex-founders. We hire A-players, not passengers
⚡️ Speed matters - we operate with urgency, autonomy, and ownership
🧪 You’ll work on real, first-of-their-kind problems at the edge of AI and medicine
❤️ Your work helps doctors reclaim their time - and patients get better, faster care
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