Percepta
Applied AI Engineer - Manager
New York City. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will manage a small team of engineers to deliver production AI systems for customer engagements. You will act as a player-coach by writing code, reviewing designs, and driving the technical trajectory of your engineers.
What you will do
- Grow engineers through deliberate development and stretch assignments
- Ramp new people through heavy pairing and customer shadowing
- Give immediate, specific, and respectful feedback
- Own technical outcomes across all team workstreams
- Make hard technical decisions and document the reasoning
- Define team standards for code quality, testing, review, and documentation
- Build technical trust and relationships with customers
- Surface field patterns to improve the Mosaic product
- Interview and help calibrate the hiring loop
Required qualifications
- 7+ years building production software
- At least 2 years leading or managing engineers
- Write code in Python and TypeScript
- Track record of improving engineers through management
- Systems taste regarding design and trade-offs
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Real product empathy
- Fluency with LLMs as an engineering surface (Agents, tools, context, evals, and AI dev tooling)
- Ability to be direct and maintain trust
- Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have
- Managed a team through a production launch inside someone else's enterprise environment
- Enterprise integration scar tissue (EHRs, ERPs, RCM, supply chain, workforce systems)
- Domain depth in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, or financial services
- Prior forward-deployed, consulting, or design partner work
- Built tooling or frameworks that multiple teams depended on
- Startup or founding engineer background
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity
- 401(k) matching
- Comprehensive health and family benefits
- Lunch every day
About the company
Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company. The mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI.