Hiring: Product Engineer Company: Percepta Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 18:00:56 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Make, REST, Rust About the job Required Skills: •We're hiring •Product Engineers •to build cross-cutting products that become the foundation for multi-engagement tools that enable Perceptrons to more easily deliver their best work, and help to continue to show our differentiation. •engineering is forward-deployed, and we believe it’s essential for you to get exposure o the field. Our operating model is: Someone embeds with a customer, learns their systems, and ships. That work is real and it's why customers trust us. The products that will generalize across customers don't get built well from a distance, and we are excited to invest in our product team to make sure we have deep focus on getting this right. •In your first several months, you'll work alongside a customer team doing real delivery work in the field: shipping into their environment, sitting with their constraints, finding where the duct tape is. You understand that context is earned, and this is a mission to feel the pain of our engineers and clients in the field, and build a deep sense of empathy and understanding for what you’ll build next. •Once you’ve had ample time to get a deep sense for the places we should invest, you'll have time that isn't attached to a customer contract to get a first working version of something in front of engineering leadership, and you should expect to make the case for it: Who it's for, why it matters past this one account, how it's built, what it does today. If it holds up, you own what comes next. Roadmap, rollout, adoption, all of it. •A meaningful share of your time will be dedicated to exploring and creating product wherever you think the gap is; the rest goes at things we already believe need to exist. The bar for the former is that you can say who buys it, why now, and what it replaces. •Two Shapes Of Product Come Out Of This, And You Don't Have To Pick Before You've Seen An Account Up Close •Something deep in one industry. Operationalizing a hospital system, for example, where the product is inseparable from how that industry actually runs and the commercial story is specific. •Horizontal. •Something every deployment reaches for. Agent tooling, evaluation, deployment surfaces, the layer that makes the next engagement faster than the last. •Same intake either way. Tell us in your application which one you're drawn to and we'll plan to speak with you more about your interest. •What you'll do •Embed with a customer team and ship production delivery work, so your product instincts come from somewhere real •Take an idea from nothing to something deployable and usable, and make the case for it to the people who'd 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!