Job Description

Elevate Healthcare - Lead Engineer – Innovation & Technology

Position Overview

As a Lead Engineer for the Innovation Group, you will own the end-to-end technical roadmap and delivery for a set of products in our next-generation product portfolio. You will collaborate with various functions including Product Management, Design, Business Leaders, Sales, and Customer Success. It is your mission to translate the product roadmap into a clear engineering workplan, design a scalable architecture and lead a high-velocity team that builds, tests, and operates production-grade systems, delivered on-time.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture & Strategy - Own the system‑level architecture that satisfies functional, performance, security, and scalability goals. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tooling that align with product vision and customer needs.
• Roadmap Execution - Translate the product roadmap into a detailed, prioritized engineering backlog. Own sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release cadence with cross‑functional teams (Product, Design, Business, Sales, Support).
• Team Leadership & Mentorship - Coach and mentor less senior engineers; conduct regular code reviews, knowledge‑share sessions, and career‑development talks. Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and data‑driven decision making.
• Production Excellence - Design and run high‑availability, production systems. Own incident response, post‑mortem processes, and reliability metrics.
• Agile Enablement – Champion agile practices (sprints, retrospectives, backlog refinement) and coach cross‑functional teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration - Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Business Leaders, Sales, and Customer Success to surface technical constraints and validate assumptions. Communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders in a clear, business‑impact‑focused manner.

Desired First Year Outcomes

• Define and deliver technical roadmap milestones for next-generation product portfolio, ensuring timely and high-quality releases aligned with business objectives.
• Establish engineering best practices and reliability metrics for production systems.
• Build and mentor a high-performing engineering team within the Innovation Group.

Ideal Experience

• 10+ years of total experience preferred, 5+ years in an engineering team leadership role
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and generative AI tools (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face)
• Expertise in building and deploying AI models for scheduling, NLP, and recommendation systems.
• Strong grasp of data engineering: pipelines, preprocessing, and model evaluation.
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving AI and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience building or scaling an engineering org in a new‑innovation or early‑stage startup environment (or similar high‑ambition, ambiguity‑heavy context).
• 3+ years running and supporting mission‑critical production systems (cloud and/or on‑prem). Fluency in at least one of: Python, Go, Rust, Java, C#, TypeScript.
• Hands‑on design of microservices, event‑driven pipelines, or distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, IaC (e.g., Terraform / CloudFormation), Containers / Kubernetes, and observability platforms
• Familiarity with multi‑cloud or hybrid‑cloud strategies (AWS, GCP, Azure, on-prem)

Preferred Experience

• Design & deployment of large‑scale cloud services (e.g., serverless, container‑native, auto‑scaling).
• Direct experience with IP‑camera protocols, transcoding pipelines, or real‑time media systems.
• Expertise with distributed tracing, alert‑management, and performance profiling.
• Knowledge of audio/visual infrastructure (IP cameras, microphones, speakers, video matrices, decoders) is a strong differentiator.

Other Personal Characteristics

As a founding team member of the Innovation Group, the following will be considered:

• Ability to think outside the box to deliver creative solutions in constrained environments
• Ability to grows team, and make sound architectural decisions instead of chasing trends
• Ethos of a technologist who is connected to the voice of the customer and the goals of the business to drive meaningful outcomes
• A willingness to establish a psychologically safe and team culture

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, flexible vacation, and 401k with matching.
• Professional development opportunities in a rapidly growing healthcare technology company.
• Flexible work arrangements with preference for proximity to Austin or hybrid in CT/ET time zones.
• Opportunity to build innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and healthcare training.

Position Details – Lead Engineer, Innovation Group

• Location: Austin, TX
• Travel: As required for business needs
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience: 10+ years of total experience preferred, 5+ years in an engineering team leadership role

About the Company

Elevate Healthcare was recently added to the Madison Medical portfolio of companies in February of 2024 with the acquisition from CAE corporation. As a 30 year old company, Elevate designs, manufactures, and services healthcare simulation products used to educate nurses, doctors and medical professionals on the proper techniques and procedures to have confidence and competence in the life saving moments that matter. Currently, society is facing a significant shortage of nurses and doctors needed to treat an aging world population. Medical errors represent the third largest cause of death in the United States. Elevate plays a critical part in reducing medical errors and expanding the workforce for healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes. Elevate serves all of the major nursing and medical programs at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, medical schools, medical associations and medical technology manufacturers worldwide.

Madison Industries Holdings LLC is one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Driven by a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive, the company is uniquely designed to foster, empower, and build exceptional companies and teams that are essential to collective health and well- being.

Founded 25 years ago by Larry Gies, Madison Industries has morphed from a "buy, build, sell" model prevalent among venture capital and private equity firms, into partnerships that mutually benefit customers, employees and the business owners who join it. Madison’s goal is to build something truly remarkable that will long outlast all of us. Through Madison’s strategy, the company has grown into an international manufacturing powerhouse. It has built market leaders in the filtration, medical, safety, healthcare simulation, industrial equipment, process improvement, instruments & controls, plastics, energy, and indoor air quality industries with combined enterprise value of nearly $20 billion. Its footprint spans across Europe, Asia and the Americas operating over 300 facilities in 40+ countries, with over 18,000 engaged employees.

Madison/Elevate Culture

Elevate is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by inspiring positive outcomes in healthcare. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Elevate is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential.

Elevate is part of the Madison Medical platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial.

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