Senior Manager of Machine Learning (SaMD)

Join WHOOP, a leading performance optimization company, as a Senior Manager of Machine Learning (SaMD). In this role, you will lead the development of regulated health features, set direction for your teams, and partner with various departments to deliver clinical-grade health products. You will be accountable for engineering velocity and rigor in a regulated medical device development environment. Additionally, you will build and develop your team, set standards for regulated ML, and represent the team's work to executive and cross-functional audiences.

• Assumer la responsabilité de la livraison et des résultats des personnes au sein de l'équipe de développement des fonctionnalités de santé réglementées de WHOOP.
• Définir la direction de l'équipe, développer la prochaine génération de leaders et collaborer avec les parties prenantes pour livrer des produits de santé conformes aux normes cliniques.
• Être responsable de la vitesse d'ingénierie de l'équipe et de la rigueur requise pour fonctionner dans un environnement de développement de dispositifs médicaux réglementés.

• Success in this role requires a profile with both ML and SaMD depth to evaluate your team's most important decisions, plus the people leadership skill to grow ICs, drive cross-functional alignment, and deliver with both pace and rigor in a regulated environment
• 7+ years of experience in ML, applied science, or software engineering, with 3+ years managing engineering and/or science teams
• Fluency operating across regulatory, quality, and clinical stakeholders, including familiarity with V&V, traceability, change control, design history, and audit readiness in fast-moving ML programs
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field
• Direct experience shipping algorithms or ML-enabled software in a regulated environment (Software as a Medical Device, medical device development, or comparable QMS-controlled product development under FDA, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971)
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy and make timely prioritization calls under uncertainty, keeping the team focused on the highest-leverage work
• Demonstrated track record junior and senior ICs, including hiring, performance management, and developing people who in turn raise the bar around them
• Demonstrated AI-tooling sophistication: a track record of building or adopting AI-enabled workflows that materially improved team speed, quality, or decision confidence
• Deep familiarity with the ML development lifecycle: data collection, model training, evaluation, validation, deployment, and monitoring, sufficient to evaluate the most important technical and methodological decisions your team makes
• Clear, high-signal communicator who can move fluidly between deeply technical ML/regulatory discussions and executive-level summaries of risk, trade-offs, and direction
• Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply