Hiring: Applied AI Engineer - Manager Company: Percepta Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 18:00:55 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Make, PATs About the job Required Skills: •We're hiring a player-coach Engineering Manager to help us grow our incredible engineers who are tackling our customers’ hardest problems. •Our Applied AI Engineers embed directly with customer teams. They own delivery, sit with operators and executives and ship production AI systems into environments nobody would describe as clean. •You will help scale the growth of our Applied AI engineers by managing a small team (to start) of engineers across one of our customer engagements. Your primary output is their trajectory: What they can own in 6 months that they can't own today. •Everyone at Percepta is a builder, and you'll still be writing code. Expect to be in a codebase most weeks, reviewing designs, pairing on the gnarly parts, and stepping in directly when a launch is at risk. •This isn't a coding-optional role •. It’s a player-coach role because we strongly believe in staying close to the work. Your engineers are making architecture calls inside unfamiliar enterprise systems under real time pressure. It’s hard to do that from the outside, so you will have to be able to dig into the weeds when needed. •The balance shifts week to week. During a rollout you're closer to the code. Between rollouts you're closer to your people. Both are the job. •You'll partner with an Engagement Lead on customer strategy and with Growth Leads on each engineer's development, so you're not carrying the whole picture alone. You'll also be one of the leading voices on what Mosaic should become, because you'll be deeply embedded with the problems, and be intimately familiar with where the pain points are. •What You'll Do •Grow engineers, deliberately. •Have a real point of view on where each person is today and where they could be in 6 to 12 months, then aim their work at the overlap between what they're interested in, what they need to build, and what the business actually needs. Stretch assignments should be work that matters, not busywork dressed up as development. •Ramp people properly. •Invest heavily up front: Learn about your direct reports, their learning and working style, how they operate, and how to best partner together. Get live context on the customer and the industry, heavily pairing in the first few weeks, co-attending every customer meeting for the first two (shadow, reverse shadow, then they lead). We want to make sure Percepta is the best place to work, and that there is unprecedented opportunity to grow a career here. Help your direct report learn their strengths, where to focus, and how to succeed in the ambiguity that is a high growth tech environment. •Give feedback in the moment. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!