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VP of Engineering

Unlearn · San Francisco · Remote

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About Unlearn

Discover how Unlearn uses AI to create digital twins of clinical trial participants, streamlining clinical development and enabling confident decision-making. Backed by Insight.

About the role

Lead Unlearn's engineering function across technical disciplines, owning the quality, reliability, compliance, and security of the systems that power our work. Ensure AI tools and systems are used heavily for efficiency and impact.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years in software engineering with significant experience leading engineering organizations at the Senior Director or VP level, including managing managers and senior technical leaders across multiple engineering disciplines
  • A track record of strong execution in highly collaborative and cross-functional environments where engineering has delivered on timelines that mattered to the business
  • Experience leading across the stack: infrastructure/DevOps, backend or platform engineering, and application/front-end development, with experience in regulated environments where compliance is a key factor on system design
  • Demonstrated ability to translate company strategy into an engineering roadmap, communicate the "why" behind priorities, and hold teams accountable for delivering against commitments
  • Experience partnering closely with Product, R&D, and customer-facing delivery teams, you have built internal tools and platforms that made technical teams measurably more effective
  • Experience in growth-stage or early-stage companies where you built engineering processes and delivery discipline in small teams while shipping. Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated, data-intensive domain is a plus
More about this role

Unlearn exists to transform clinical development by making every trial smarter. We harness data, AI, and digital twins to enable faster, more robust studies that bring life-saving treatments to patients faster. This mission drives everything we do as we partner with biopharmaceutical companies to redesign how clinical trials are planned, run, and analyzed.

We are defining the future of clinical development with unmatched scientific credibility, replacing uncertainty with AI-powered precision so decisions are clearer and trials are stronger. We don’t just disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, we create lasting change.

We believe AI will define the future of medicine, and we are committed to building that future responsibly, rigorously, and in close collaboration with our partners in clinical development.

We come from a variety of backgrounds ranging from machine learning to marketing—but regardless of where we come from, Unlearners share some common traits:

Unlearners are ambitious ; we aren’t intimidated by big, challenging goals.

Unlearners are disciplined experimenters ; we break down our big goals into smaller chunks and meet as often as necessary to track our velocity and...

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