Head of Engineering
Role Overview
As the Head of Engineering, you will lead the entire engineering organization, bridging leadership's vision with the realities of the lab and production floor. You'll be hands-on in patent drafting, hire and lead engineers for cloud connectivity, and collaborate across operations, sales, and finance. This senior role requires 10+ years of experience and a track record of shipping complex hardware/software products.
Perks & Benefits
This is a remote role, allowing you to work from anywhere. You'll lead a team of exceptional engineers and have significant impact on product and company direction. The role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge sensor-driven medical technology, with hands-on involvement in patent prosecution and building a cloud platform from the ground up.
Full Job Description
Fitt Talent Partners is a specialized recruitment firm for top health and wellness companies.
We’re filling this role for a client, a smart seating company founded by ex-SpaceX and NASA engineers, building dynamic, sensor-driven medical cushions that prevent pressure injuries and restore mobility for wheelchair users.
Role Overview
Hiring a Head of Engineering to lead its entire engineering organization. This is the technical leader who turns a team of exceptionally strong individual contributors into a focused, fast-shipping unit — the glue between leadership's vision and the realities of the lab and the production floor.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and hold accountable the entire engineering team — delivery, culture, morale, and accountability are all theirs
Bridge between leadership and the dev team — strategy gets communicated down, technical constraints get communicated up
Partner with the CEO and patent attorneys to actively draft and prosecute patents — this is a hands-on responsibility, not a hand-off
Hire and lead the engineer who will build our cloud connectivity and data platform
Collaborate closely with operations to ensure engineering decisions support our high-mix, short lead time manufacturing model
Ensure Sales & Marketing are kept abreast of timing, trade-offs, and impact of asks
Work with Finance on key programs for financial clarity
Leadership & Culture
Proven track record of adapting team culture as a company scales — maintaining morale and ensuring accountability through growth.
Builds teams that understand the customer deeply: engineers who talk to users and build with empathy.
Breaks down silos between engineering and the rest of the business.
Holds people accountable with clarity and respect — action items get closed, commitments get kept.
Holds strong opinions loosely and changes their mind when evidence warrants it.
Knows when to build vs. buy — allergic to reinventing the wheel.
Customer-obsessed: passionate about each customer's experience, prioritizing the real need and iterating against it.
Qualifications
10+ years engineering experience with 3–5+ years leading engineering teams at a startup or growth-stage company
Hands-on background in electromechanical systems, embedded firmware, and connected hardware
Experience taking a hardware product and building the cloud connectivity and data platform around it
Proven track record of shipping complex hardware/software products on time and to spec
HIPAA or regulated data environment experience a plus
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