VP OF ENGINEERING
San Francisco, CA
Engineering
Karuna is an early-stage venture-backed digital therapeutics company. Karuna Labs builds immersive virtual reality technology designed to treat chronic pain by retraining the brain. Karuna’s evidence-based approach to chronic pain leverages physical therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cognitive neuroscience to treat neuropathic pain conditions by resolving sensory motor incongruences and helping patients to overcome fear-avoidant behavior.
Karuna’s mission is to become a first line defense for chronic pain. We’re looking for deep generalists who are adept at building creative solutions to complex problems.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute on product strategy and roadmap for digital therapeutic software addressing chronic pain
- Establish a metrics based organization, develop key operational metrics and push for continuous improvement
- Participate in code and design reviews, quality assurance and sprint releases
- Explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools
- Aggressively build and grow a team of talented engineers to achieve our company’s vision
- Work across key stakeholders of clinicians, patients, engineers, game designers, and 3D modelers to deliver therapeutic virtual reality applications
- Build and maintain quality management system for programming audits for FDA
- Perform product management functions including functional specs, roadmap, project management, issue/risk management, and cross-division coordination
- Establish data pipeline for analyzing complex motion capture data
- Define, track and deliver key productivity metrics and continually work towards improving team efficiency and engineering capacity
Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Self starter and team builder
- 8+ years experience managing technical teams
- Demonstrated coding ability in one of the following areas: Java, C#, Python, Javascript
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience building medical software
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams
- Knowledge in agile methodologies and software development lifecycle
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Industry
Computer Software Information Technology & Services Computer Hardware
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Functions
Design, Engineering, Information Technology
