Engineering Leadership, NY Site Lead at Abridge in NYC Office

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About Abridge Founded in 2018, Abridge is the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform organized around the patient, built for clinicians, and designed to help health systems coordinate the clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions for every moment of care. Powered by purpose-built AI for healthcare, Abridge connects patients, providers, payers, and life sciences companies. This year, the platform will support more than 100 million patient-clinician conversations across more than 300 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. With deep workflow integration, the Abridge clinician intelligence platform has been validated to support encounters in 28+ languages across specialties and care settings. Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of Al across health systems with continual and transparent Al evaluation. Clinical decision support references and cites gold-standard sources of evidence, and features like Linked Evidence map AI-generated documentation to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output. Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS for Ambient AI in 2025 and 2026, in addition to other accolades, including TIME Best Inventions of 2024 and 2025, CNBC Disruptor 2025, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2025. We are a growing team of practicing clinicians, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to transform healthcare. We have offices located in San Francisco, New York, and Pittsburgh. The Role Our agentic AI-powered products are bringing joy back to the practice of medicine, and we're building out our engineering presence in New York. We're looking for an engineering leader to be the senior technical presence in our SoHo office — someone who will own business-critical product areas end-to-end while setting the bar, the culture, and the pace for the engineers we hire around them. This is a builder's role first and a site leader's role second. You'll scope and ship product in an area that is still being defined, grow a team from a small core, and represent Abridge engineering in New York. This role is based in New York and requires working from our SoHo office five days / week. We believe the fastest way to build this team is in person, and we're looking for someone who wants to set that example. What You’ll Do Build our New York engineering presence: Be the senior engineering voice in our NY office. Establish the operating rhythm, quality bar, and culture of the office. Make New York a place strong engineers want to do their best work. AI-native leadership: Bring a real point of view on how agentic engineering changes the way software gets built — in the product you ship and in how your team works. Drive pace and performance: Raise the execution velocity of the org around you. Set business context for your team, partner closely with product and design, and be a multiplier for the leaders and engineers you work alongside. Own an area and ship it: Take a product area from ambiguity to shipped, enterprise-grade software. You'll set technical direction, make the architecture calls, and be accountable for the output of your team. We don't expect you to code daily, but we expect you to be close enough to the tech to unblock, and to still enjoy being hands-on. What You’ll Bring At least 5+ years managing software engineering teams — including time as a manager of managers or as the most senior engineering leader in a location. Track record of building something from zero to real scale, and of owning the product outcome rather than just the engineering process. Hands-on technically. You can read and review the code your team is shipping, get into a codebase when something needs unblocking, and hold your own in a technical design discussion. A clear, well-formed point of view on AI and agentic engineering, and evidence you've acted on it. Skilled at hiring and mentorship, with a track record of helping engine