Percepta
Applied AI Engineer - Manager
$250K–$425K
New York City · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years building production software, with at least 2 leading or managing engineers.
About the job
Manage and coach a small team of customer-embedded Applied AI Engineers while contributing code and owning technical decisions and delivery of production AI systems.
What you'll do
- Develop engineers through coaching, feedback, onboarding, and stretch assignments; interview and help hire.
- Set technical direction and standards, review work, and remain hands-on in code to ensure delivery quality.
- Own customer-facing technical relationships and feed deployment insights into Percepta’s Mosaic toolkit.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building production software, including at least 2 years leading or managing engineers.
- Continue writing code; Python and TypeScript are specified as the team’s stack and interview languages.
- Demonstrated ability to improve an engineer through management, and strong systems design judgment.
- Fluency with LLM engineering concepts including agents, tools, context, evals, and AI developer tooling.
Nice to have
- Managed a team through a production launch in an enterprise environment; enterprise integration experience.
- Domain depth in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, or financial services; forward-deployed, consulting, or design-partner experience.
Pay
$250K – $425K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, LLMs, Mosaic
AI focus
Lead and deliver production AI systems in customer environments, apply LLM engineering practices, and improve Mosaic based on deployment needs.
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