Engineering Manager - Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
Want to join a team of passionate people who want to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer?👋 About Us Skin Analytics is an award-winning, health tech company that works with dermatology teams to deploy world-leading skin cancer pathways using AI as a medical device, DERM. Following our recent £15M series B funding round and regulatory milestones, we're ready to scale internationally, making history for AI in healthcare and the future of dermatology. We're proud to epitomise AI for good - with a Class III CE mark, DERM is the only AI as a medical device approved to make clinical decisions autonomously in the cancer space, as well as being the first company to receive a NICE recommendation for use across the NHS.* DERM is deployed at more than 25 NHS organisations where we're supporting dermatology teams to build sustainable services that enable patients to gain quicker access to skin cancer diagnosis. If that's not enough, we also collaborate with some of the largest health insurers to reach patients in their own homes. We are a team of passionate people on a mission to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer. 🏢London based - Hybrid (3 days a week in the office) Interested in building world-changing technologies, and deploying medical devices at the intersection of artificial intelligence and clinical diagnostics? Skin Analytics is offering an Engineering Manager role in our medical devices team to develop innovative AI devices to be deployed into global healthcare pathways. This role will involve working in a fast-paced environment with a multidisciplinary team, building world-class technologies. You will lead a business critical function responsible for delivering regulated medical AI products, which will be deployed into real world pathways. Managing engineers working on AI and SaMD components, you will own the development and delivery of compliant, scalable software that meets stringent medical standards. You'll bring consistency, speed, and excellence to how the team plans, builds, and ships medical devices. Key Responsibilities
- Lead engineering delivery for SaMD product roadmap, driving excellent technical execution from a multidisciplinary team
- Own IEC 62304 compliance, ensuring traceability, software design documentation and release quality meet stringent regulatory requirements
- Establish agile delivery practices that work within the constraints of ISO 13485 and EU MDR and FDA expectations
- Partner with Clinical, Product, ML, Dev-Ops, QA, regulatory affairs, and senior stakeholders to align roadmaps and execution plans
- Be hands-on when needed, especially in system architecture and solving complex technical issues
- Manage a growing team by conducting effective 1:1s, coach engineers, lead hiring and onboarding, and manage a career development framework
- Introduce best engineering & delivery practices, improve and and report on velocity, release cadence, defect rate, and other metrics
- Leading engineering teams (line managing Seniors and below) in a regulated medical environment, having delivered multiple health tech products
- Have a strong background in: Node.js, JavaScript, Express, MySQL, preferably also React. Infrastructure & DevOps experience: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Bitbucket, TestRail, Postman
- Building and delivering clinical software products with end-to-end traceability under IEC 62304 and ISO 13485
- Driving complex technical decision-making (e.g., architecture reviews, release criteria)
- Leading or supporting regulatory audits and inspections
- Managing stakeholders across Engineering, Product, QA, and Compliance
- Implementing metrics and rituals that increase team velocity and delivery consistency
- Insist on the highest standards, and continually raise the bar for our medical devices, processes and team
- Willingness to take ownership, and focus on long-term value as well as achieving short-term goals
- Drive innovation from your team
- Recognising and championing talent from within your team, and supporting their growth and progression
- Be willing to operate at all levels, from low-level technical details to high-level business strategy
- Deliver projects which are on time and within budget, without compromising on quality
- Define team rituals that promote alignment, speed, and predictability
- Deliver traceability and documentation gap analysis aligned to IEC 62304
- Lead release of a major AI model or SaMD milestone on time
- Identify and implement 3 delivery optimisations that improve speed without sacrificing quality
- Expanded the team to support product scaling, by hiring and onboarding engineers