About the Role

As the Engineering Manager, Brain Health Platform, you will lead the development and execution of innovative mental wellness solutions at Hinge Health. You will oversee a multidisciplinary team building agentic AI systems for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Process-Interpersonal Psychotherapy (PIPT) experiences, while also architecting a unified education service that delivers comprehensive mental health educational content to our members.

You will manage a team of engineers who will develop and deploy these brain health solutions at scale. As a key leader, you will collaborate with senior leadership, product management, clinical psychology teams, and coordinate across our three physical locations - San Francisco HQ, Montreal, Canada, and Bangalore, India.

Our Brain Health initiatives focus on creating personalized, evidence-based mental wellness experiences that adapt to each member's psychological needs, emotional state, and therapeutic progress. This position is mission-critical for expanding Hinge Health's impact beyond physical therapy into comprehensive mind-body wellness, helping millions achieve better mental health outcomes through innovative AI-powered therapeutic interventions.

As a hands-on engineering leader, you're expected to stay close to the technology: understanding your team's full stack, contributing code, and regularly reviewing and merging pull requests (~15% of your time).

We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our stack includes Go, gRPC, Temporal, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Node.js/TypeScript (NestJS), GraphQL, React, and React Native. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD, and our security/compliance posture is at the highest standards of healthcare, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA.

What You'll Accomplish

• Build next-generation therapeutic AI agents that deliver personalized CBT and PIPT interventions, ensuring clinical efficacy while maintaining engaging, empathetic user experiences.

• Architect and scale a unified education platform that intelligently serves mental health content, tracks learning progress, and personalizes educational pathways based on member needs and therapeutic goals.

• Develop the technical strategy for brain health initiatives with your product management partner and clinical stakeholders, ensuring alignment between technological capabilities and therapeutic best practices.

• Design robust AI architectures for conversational therapy bots that maintain context over multiple sessions, demonstrate emotional intelligence, and adapt therapeutic approaches based on member progress.

• Establish MLOps practices specific to mental health AI applications, including model monitoring for therapeutic effectiveness, safety guardrails, and compliance with mental health care standards.

• Drive innovation in natural language processing and affective computing to enhance the therapeutic alliance between AI agents and members.

• Collaborate with clinical teams to validate AI interventions against evidence-based therapeutic protocols and measure clinical outcomes.

• Build cross-functional partnerships with content creators, clinical psychologists, and data scientists to create a comprehensive brain health ecosystem.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days/week.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 5+ years of experience managing teams of 5+ technologists (mix of engineers and ML researchers/scientists)

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying ML/NLP solutions at scale (thousands to millions of DAU)

• Experience with conversational AI, dialogue systems, or chatbot development

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Machine Learning, Computational Psychology, or a related field

• 3+ years of experience developing conversational or agentic AI systems using LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, LLaMA), including techniques such as prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, or reinforcement learning

• Proven understanding of responsible AI and ethical model design, particularly within healthcare or sensitive data environments

• Experience building or deploying digital mental health or therapeutic AI applications, with familiarity in CBT, DBT, or other evidence-based modalities

• Working knowledge of mental health privacy regulations (HIPAA, state-specific laws) and secure data practices

• Proficiency in modern development and ML infrastructure (Python, TypeScript, Node.js/NestJS, vector databases, LangChain, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS services like Bedrock/SageMaker, and CI/CD pipelines)

Compensation

This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. Please note the annual salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. The annual salary range for this position is $220,000 - $330,000.

About Hinge Health

Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care—from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation—and the platform can help to ease members’ pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com

What You'll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.

• Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.

• Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

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