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Head of Engineering

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expert/Leader
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expert/Leader
Responsible for scaling the engineering organization, translating product roadmaps, driving velocity, hiring top engineers, and making architectural decisions.
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Superpower is building the future of preventative health. We help people unlock peak performance and longevity—and we’re working to put an AI doctor in every person’s pocket.

We have product-market fit, are growing fast, and are ~12 months from $100M revenue and a $1B valuation. This is a critical inflection point—scaling beyond the founding team into a world-class engineering organization.

Our team is made up of over a dozen former venture backed founders, 5 technical Y Combinator alumni, and a Thiel Fellow – extremely high horsepower, mission-obsessed, and operating at the edge of speed and ambition.

The Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Leader who can align, structure, and scale our engineering org while staying deeply technical. We’re looking to build an org that runs at the speed of physics. You’ll:

  • Translate the product roadmap into engineering execution.

  • Drive velocity by parallelizing work and unblocking constraints.

  • Get into the code when it matters.

  • Hire, mentor and grow top engineers into leaders.

  • Partner with product and design to ship with taste and speed.

What You’ll Do
  • Scale engineering culture – Build and lead an org that operates at extreme velocity.

  • Own architecture decisions – Balance speed, scalability, and reliability.

  • Spec product work – Work directly with the CTO, founders, and product leads to scope, prioritize, and ship.

  • Manage velocity – Remove bottlenecks, shorten iteration cycles, and accelerate shipping.

  • Grow the team – Attract and level up world-class engineers who thrive in this environment.

What We’re Looking For
  • Consumer product experience – Built and scaled consumer-facing apps with taste and user obsession.

  • Startup leadership – Been through 0→1 and 1→100 at a high-growth consumer company.

  • Engineering leadership – Scaled beyond the founding team without losing velocity.

  • Technical depth – Strong coding background, comfortable reviewing and making architecture calls.

  • Velocity mindset – Moves at an extreme pace, unblocks, parallelizes, and accelerates work.

  • Based in San Francisco – Thrives in a fast-moving, in-person culture.

Archetypes We Like
  • Engineering leader at a high-growth startup.

  • Technical product leader with deep engineering background.

  • Deeply product minded who understands product + engineering tradeoffs.

  • Former startup CTO or founder.

Compensation
  • Top percentile salary.

  • Top percentile equity ownership – this is one of the most important hires to unlock speed at Superpower.


We’re proud to be a global team and welcome talent from around the world. We offer visa sponsorship and can support relocation to the United States for the right candidates. Much of our team is international, and we’re committed to building a team of top-tier talent.

Investors
  • Forerunner (Top consumer healthcare VC in the world; early board members of Hims and Oura; Kirsten, founder of Forerunner, led our Series A)

  • 8VC (leading health and bio investor)

  • Evan Moore (Founder of Doordash; Partner at Khosla Ventures)

  • Cyan Bannister (early investor into Uber and SpaceX, former partner at Founder’s Fund, regarded as one of the top angels in the world)

  • Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO and angel, ex-General Partner at a16z)

  • Arielle Zuckerberg (active angel, tech leader, relatively famous brother)

  • Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss

  • Susa Ventures (tier 1 healthcare VC)

  • Bond Capital (General Partner Jay Simons' early-stage fund within Bond)

  • Long Journey Ventures (investor in Uber, Notion, Loom, Affirm etc.)

  • Influencers

    • Shaan Puri (angel and podcast host of my first million)

    • Brooke Monke (50 million followers across socials)

    • Logan Paul

    • Steve Aoki

    • Justin Mares (founder of Truemed)

    • Giannis Antetokounmpo

    • Kylian Mbappé

Cementing the opportunity
  • The world’s biggest company will be in consumer healthcare

  • Solving longevity – the most important problem of our time

  • A mayo clinic executive program 2.0 in the cloud

Company Philosophies
  • We are all here to genuinely do our life’s best work.

  • Insanely high talent bar, never settling. A players only (see steve jobs)

  • We live to work as much as we work to live. But we sustainably espouse the superpower ethos of putting health first.

  • We aim to set the gold standard for team health culture on the planet - live the ethos!

🧡Culture at Superpower

Top Skills

AI
Coding
Engineering Leadership
Product Roadmapping
Software Architecture

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