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Verily · 16 hours ago

Director Software Engineering, AI Platform & Real-World Evidence

Verily is a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on using data-driven approaches to improve health management and healthcare delivery. The Director of Software Engineering will lead a large team overseeing the core infrastructure for AI capabilities and health initiatives, ensuring the development and delivery of critical platforms while fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

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Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization of 40-50 engineers and managers. Define and drive the engineering culture, performance standards, and collaboration models across multiple cross functional teams
AI Infrastructure & Acceleration: Oversee the engineering strategy for the infrastructure at the core of Verily’s Model Development Lifecycle (MDLC), ensuring data scientists have the robust tooling required to prototype, validate, and deploy models efficiently. You will champion the development of annotation and evaluation systems which enable rapid iteration and detect model hallucinations and bias. Additionally you will drive the adoption of foundational model serving infrastructure that enables techniques such as RAG at scale
Cross-Functional Strategy: Partner deeply with Data Science, Clinical, and Product leadership to accelerate model development velocity and quality. Translate complex scientific requirements into scalable engineering roadmaps that support key evidence generation milestones
Longitudinal Solution Delivery: Direct the engineering of Verily’s Lifelong Health Study. Ensuring we seamlessly bridge research and care by capturing high-frequency sensor signals, supporting patient-centric applications like Verily Me, and integrating diverse real-world data streams
Identity & Security: Own the delivery and reliability of the platform’s Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) system. Ensure secure, compliant, and seamless access for patients, researchers, and health systems, maintaining our "comply-by-design" philosophy for privacy and data protection
Operational Excellence: Manage organizational resourcing, budgeting, and headcount planning to ensure teams are structured to dependably, sustainably, and quickly deliver on roadmaps. Lead improvements to cross-functional business processes and effectively manage tradeoffs between short-term execution and medium-term architectural investments

Qualification

ML EngineeringData InfrastructureTechnical StrategyIdentity ManagementCloud EngineeringAI PracticesLongitudinal StudiesInfluencing LeadershipTeam LeadershipCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
12+ years of experience in software, data, cloud, or ML engineering roles
5+ years of experience managing engineering managers and leading technical strategy for multi-team organizations
Proven track record of building and leading teams responsible for large-scale data infrastructure, ML platforms, or regulated software products

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
Deep understanding of 'ML Ops' and responsible AI practices, including model governance, automated red-teaming, and evaluation frameworks
Experience designing and operating Identity and Access Management (IAM/CIAM) systems in a healthcare or highly regulated environment (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR)
Familiarity with longitudinal health studies, sensor signal processing, and FHIR data standards
Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership (VP+) and drive alignment across engineering, product, and scientific teams

Benefits

Bonus
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Company

Verily

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Verily is an Alphabet health tech company focused on research, care, and health financing to deliver on the promise of precision health. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$3.51B
Key Investors
Michael J. Fox FoundationSwiss Re Corporate SolutionsSilver Lake
2025-04-30Grant· $14.7M
2022-09-29Secondary Market
2022-09-09Corporate Round· $1B

Leadership Team

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Scott Burke
CTO at Verily
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Cynthia M. Patton
General Counsel and Secretary
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