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Head of Engineering, UAE

Job type: Full Time · Department: Engineering · Work type: Hybrid · AED 540000 - 660000 / year

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About Us

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.

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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.

Hard Requirements

  • 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).

Key Results (First 90 Days)

  • 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.

Why Join Sully.ai?

🔥 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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