[Remote] Engineering Manager, Frontend Platform (Ambient AI)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Athelas is a company focused on transforming healthcare through innovative technology, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Frontend Platform team. This role involves overseeing the development of core frontend foundations for Ambient AI products, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and user-friendly experiences for clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a senior team of frontend platform engineers supporting Ambient AI
• Set clear technical and execution standards in a high-bar, healthcare-grade environment
• Coach engineers on scope ownership, technical decision-making, and cross-team influence
• Hire and develop engineers who can operate across platform, product, and design boundaries
• Own planning, execution, and delivery for platform initiatives with clear product impact
• Own the frontend platform used across Ambient experiences (web, mobile, embedded surfaces)
• Lead architecture for real-time and async workflows (audio capture, streaming updates, AI state transitions)
• Build and scale shared UI primitives, component libraries, and design systems used across Ambient
• Improve frontend performance, latency, reliability, and offline/poor-network behavior
• Establish patterns for error handling, loading states, partial data, and confidence signaling in AI workflows
• Create strong frontend abstractions that reduce duplication across Ambient product teams
• Improve local dev, testing, CI/CD, and release workflows for frontend engineers
• Define standards for frontend observability, performance metrics, and user-impact monitoring
• Partner with backend and ML teams to define clean contracts between AI systems and UI layers
• Partner deeply with Product to translate clinical workflows into scalable UI platforms
• Work closely with Design to evolve clinician-grade design systems and accessibility standards
• Collaborate with Compliance and Security to ensure frontend patterns meet healthcare requirements
• Influence frontend technical direction across the broader engineering organization
• Drive architectural reviews and RFCs for major Ambient frontend initiatives
• Help teams navigate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and safety in AI-driven UX
• Stay close enough to the code and architecture to unblock complex problems when needed
• Ensure platform decisions anticipate future scale (new care settings, modalities, and products)

Skills

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including managing frontend or platform teams
• Experience leading frontend platforms, shared UI infrastructure, or design systems
• Strong expertise with modern frontend stacks (e.g. React, TypeScript, modern build tooling)
• Experience supporting real-time, data-intensive, or mission-critical user workflows
• Proven ability to deliver platform capabilities used by multiple product teams
• Strong communication skills and comfort influencing product and technical direction
• Experience building clinician-facing, enterprise, or regulated products
• Familiarity with AI-driven or ML-powered user experiences
• Experience with mobile + web shared platforms or cross-surface design systems
• Background in healthcare, fintech, or other high-reliability domains

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