Head of Engineering

Job description

Head of Engineering Company Overview Mindpeak is a Hamburg-based AI company applying state-of-the-art deep learning to computational pathology, with a clear mission: enabling more effective, personalized cancer treatment. We work at the intersection of AI, medicine, and drug development-building regulatory-grade solutions that help pharma, biotech, and clinical partners discover, validate, and translate meaningful biomarkers into real-world impact. Our technology analyzes H&E, IHC, and multiplex tissue data to support drug development, patient stratification, and clinical trials. What makes this work especially rewarding: our AI is already deployed in routine diagnostics in more than 25 countries, meaning the tools we build are used by clinicians and patients every day. At Mindpeak, we believe that reliable, clinically applicable AI can change how cancer is treated. If you want to work on challenging problems, collaborate across disciplines, and see your work make a real difference in patient care, you’ll feel at home here. The Role You will lead and develop our Engineering organization, helping teams operate with greater clarity, accountability, and effectiveness. Your mission is to ensure our software engineering runs reliably today while building the foundation for future growth. You will help the team deliver predictably, raise quality and ownership, and connect software engineering decisions closely to customer and business needs. You will shape the evolution of our AI-assisted software development lifecycle, driving Engineering to embrace and adopt new ways of building software while ensuring high quality, robustness and reliability, and at substantially increased speed. You will work closely with Product, Machine Learning, Clinical and QA/Regulatory teams. What You'll Do Build and strengthen the engineering team Lead, coach, and develop engineers Establish a culture of accountability, trust, and continuous improvement Architect a high-performing team; attract, hire, and retain exceptional talent Create structure and clarity Establish clear ownership, responsibilities, and improved ways of working Improve planning, prioritization, and execution Help teams focus on the highest-impact work Apply AI-assistance in all steps of the Software-Development-Lifecycle Build a reliable engineering organization Increase predictability and transparency of delivery…