Ably Medical develops LYNG, a contactless monitoring mat placed under the mattress in hospitals, nursing homes or home care.

Our focus is on giving care teams useful insight while keeping everyday care simple.

We bring together medical device engineering, software and clinical understanding to support a more preventive approach to healthcare.

The Role
We are seeking a hands-on CTO for a small and growing tech team.

Roughly 80% of the role is delivery: managing projects yourself and getting the work done on plan and by the dates we have committed to. The remaining 20% is technology strategy and architecture.

You will be responsible for making the complete LYNG system work together, from electronics and embedded software to cloud services and analytics.

We already use AI across the company, and the next step is to make AI agents an integrated part of how we work. You will be the lead proponent for this, building and managing agents that make R&D faster and more efficient, and helping the rest of the organization integrate AI agents into their workflows.

Working directly with the management team, you will turn product priorities into a technical roadmap and lead internal specialists and external partners from development to production.

The role is based at Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken) in Oslo, Norway, where we are part of the Aleap health startup incubator. We work primarily on-site, with some flexibility to make sure you and your team thrive while developing an excellent product.

Your Responsibilities
• Run R&D projects hands-on and deliver on the committed dates. This covers scope, plan, budget, resources and technical risks, including outsourced partners.
• Own system architecture and integration across hardware, embedded software, cloud and analytics.
• Own the technology strategy and roadmap, including how AI is used in development and in our products.
• Ensure design control, risk management, traceability and V&V. Deliver the engineering evidence for MDR CE marking together with Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs (QARA).
• Lead design transfer to production together with Operations.
• Design for volume production and cost. Together with Operations and suppliers, optimize designs for production and drive cost out of every component.
• Build and develop the R&D team and its capabilities, and set its investment priorities.
• Build, deploy and manage AI agents as an integrated part of R&D workflows, such as coding, testing, documentation, requirements and traceability. Make sure their use fits within our ISO 13485 quality system.
• Lead the use of AI agents across Ably. Support other parts of the organization in moving from general AI use to AI agents integrated in their workflows, from identifying use cases to running agents efficiently and safely.

Why Join Ably
You will join at an early stage and build R&D as LYNG moves from clinical pilots toward commercial scale. You will have direct influence on how medical device development is organized and delivered. This spans product, engineering, quality, clinical and manufacturing.

Required Experience and Skills
• Minimum 10 years in medical device or other regulated product development, including senior technical leadership.
• Completed ISO 13485 development projects for physical products with integrated software, through verification and validation (V&V), and design transfer.
• First-hand CE marking experience under EU MDR 2017/745, including technical documentation and conformity assessment.
• Strong system architecture and systems engineering across hardware, embedded software, cloud and analytics.
• Proven experience taking hardware products into volume production, including design for manufacturing (DFM) and cost reduction of components and BOM.
• Practical competence in design control, risk management, traceability, configuration and change control, and cybersecurity.
• Direct experience in technical project management, including budgets, resources and outsourced partners. A track record of delivering on plan and on committed dates.
• Proven R&D leadership, including scaling a team from an early-stage startup setup to the structure and processes needed for growth.
• Experience building, deploying and managing AI agents integrated in development workflows, and practical experience using AI in products.
• A track record of driving AI agent adoption beyond your own team, including helping colleagues integrate agents into their daily work.
• A collaborative working style. A track record of building plans with product, operations, logistics and finance colleagues, and of being open to ideas from the whole team.
• Relevant technical MSc or equivalent documented competence.

Gaps in any of the above may be offset by broader experience in other areas.
Language Requirements
• Required: fluent spoken and written Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.
• Required: high fluency in spoken and written English.
• Desired: spoken and written German.

Additional Advantages
• Formal project management qualification.
• Executive management experience.
• Work experience in healthcare or clinical settings.

How You Will Work
You will work closely with Product Management that identifies market fit and customer needs and requirements. Together you will establish product requirements, features, version control, and determine the development needs and priorities. Plans are also worked out with Logistics and Finance, so that scope, timing, supply and cost fit together.

You then lead the work through requirements and architecture, design and integration, verification and validation, and design transfer to production.

You give the CEO a clear view of progress, risks and decisions needed. You work with QARA on approvals and regulatory evidence, and with Operations on manufacturing readiness. In a small company, good ideas come from everyone. We expect you to listen to and build on input from colleagues across the company.

In your first 12 months, you will set the technical roadmap and build the R&D organization. You will bring the next LYNG release through V&V and design transfer, and complete the engineering evidence for the planned MDR submission.

You will also reduce LYNG unit cost through production-optimized design.

In addition, you will make AI agents an integrated part of R&D workflows and help other parts of the organization do the same.

Your Application
Submit your CV and brief, non-confidential examples through the job portal.

Describe completed ISO 13485 projects and your contribution to MDR CE marking.

Include examples of architecture and R&D leadership, and of scaling a team.

Tell us about products you have taken into volume production, the cost reductions you achieved and how you delivered against plan.

Give examples of AI agents you have built or managed, and of how you have helped others integrate AI agents into their workflows.

Please describe your Scandinavian, English and any German language skills.