R&D @ Hinge Health

Enso wearable device placed on a person's forehead

Matthew Gray, Sr. Staff Engineer • 7 min read

Paying down the innovation tax: how migraine shipped in months not years

A year of platform work turned Hinge Health's next clinical launch into a configuration exercise — that's how migraine shipped in months, not years.

Holographic "Ship it!" stickers scattered across a table

Nima Habibi-Beltijeh, Director of Product Design • 7 min read

How 100% of our designers shipped production code within one month

Hinge Health set a goal: every designer ships a production PR within a month. Here's what that took, and how it reshaped what design means at the company.

Diagram of the multi-stage Docker build lifecycle used in the distroless migration

Urmila Khichada, Lead AppSec Engineer, Madhuprasad B M, Lead Security Engineer • 5 min read

How we eliminated 80% of container vulnerabilities without patching a single one

How Hinge Health cut ~80% of container CVEs and reached near-zero OS-level attack surface — by switching to distroless base images instead of patching.

Felix Pageau, Sr. Dir. of Engineering • 6 min read

Staff engineers at Hinge Health: who we hire, who we don't

"Staff engineer" means ten different things at ten different companies. Here's what it means at Hinge Health — the four archetypes we hire, the four we don't, and what success looks like in year one.

Liz Morgan, Manager, Talent Acquisition • 5 min read

Staff Software Engineering at Hinge Health

What it means to be a hands-on staff engineer at Hinge Health, and the open staff roles building AI-powered care for millions.

Hinge Health engineering leadership team

Gabriel Mecklenburg, CTO • 7 min read

Assembling a World-Class Engineering Leadership Team

Over the past 6+ months I personally hired four senior engineering leaders from Pinterest, Netflix, Meta, Uber, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Coupang, and Nextdoor; all hands-on, AI-native, and drawn to the mission.

Accurate movement tracking even when close to the device.

Caroline Rougier, PhD, Colin Brown, PhD • 8 min read

Tracking Progress: The Challenges of Precisely Measuring Movement from a Phone

How we defined clinical accuracy thresholds and re-engineered our computer vision stack to bring lab-grade range of motion measurement to members in their own homes.

Sohail Zangenehpour, PhD, Colin Brown, PhD • 9 min read

Seeing What Isn't There: How We Re-Engineered 3D Pose Estimation for the Edge

How we re-engineered TrueMotion's computer vision stack to accurately track human movement even when parts of the user are off-camera — going from 45% to 63% accuracy on out-of-frame poses.

The Hinge Health team ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 22, 2025

Gabriel Mecklenburg, CTO • 6 min read

Our License to Innovate in Healthcare

Data, regulatory, distribution, and research moats give us a license most healthcare companies don't have: to automate care itself, not just the back office.

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