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Applied AI Engineer - Manager at Percepta | LAYIQ

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.
If a design approach is off or code quality is slipping, say so immediately, specifically and with respect. Bi-weekly 1:1s that go both directions. If someone has five things to work on, sequence them over months instead of dumping all five in one sitting.
Own the technical outcome.
The buck stops with you across every workstream on your team, including the ones you delegated. Delegation is expected; abdication isn't. You should have enough context to know something is off before it becomes a crisis.
Make the hard technical calls.
Be the final decision-maker on the choices that are expensive to reverse, and be clear when a decision has been made and who made it. Document the why. Decide with incomplete information when that's what's available, and say what you assumed.
Set the bar.
Define your team's standards for code quality, testing, review rigor, and documentation. Unstated standards are just preferences people have to guess at. You don't need to review every PR, but review enough to know what's actually shipping.
Be credible with customers.
You own the technical relationship. That trust gets built through consistent delivery and good questions, not through impressive decks. When something breaks, you're the grounding presence in the room.
Feed the field back into the product.
Patterns you see on the ground (what's breaking, what's asked for constantly, what nobody touches) are signal. Surface them proactively and push the reusable parts back into Mosaic so the next deployment starts further along.
Hire.
You'll interview, you'll help calibrate the loop, and you'll shape who we bring in next.

7+ years building production software, with at least 2 leading or managing engineers. Titles don’t matter: TLs who have been doing this work, please apply
You still write code and you want to keep writing code. Python and TypeScript specifically, since that's our stack and our interview loop
A track record you can point at: An engineer who got noticeably better because of how you managed them. Be specific about what changed
Systems taste. You can explain why a design is shaped the way it is, where it'll strain, and what you'd trade off. Opinionated beats default
Comfort operating in ambiguity, and the instinct to poke at unfamiliar systems rather than wait to be shown around
Real product empathy. You think about how people will actually use the thing, what it costs them to adopt it, and how to integrate without wrecking their workflow
Fluency with LLMs as an engineering surface: Agents, tools, context, evals, and the AI dev tooling your team uses daily
You can be direct with someone and have them come away trusting you more. Candor and kindness aren't in tension here
Strong communication with non-technical stakeholders. Lead with the answer, then the caveats
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
Location And Travel
New York based. Expect a couple of days a month on site with a customer, more when a deployment needs it or when someone on your team needs you in the room. We'd rather commit to that number and occasionally exceed it than advertise "minimal travel" and surprise you.
We’re working against an incredibly ambitious mission. It won’t be easy, but it will likely be the most fulfilling work of your career. If this excites you, let's chat, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications above.
Our Values
Dream bigger: We have the unique privilege of taking on the most ambitious problems and we should chase them with optimism, responsibility, and genuine belief that we can make it happen. We have to embrace the hard things when no one else will.
Heart in the game: What we're doing matters and we have to give a shit. Internally, that means fixing badness when you find it. Externally, it means honoring the trust our customers place in us with their most important problems. This isn’t a 9-5, nor is it a job we’re ever going to monitor your hours. We promise to put work in front of you that matters and in return, we ask you to promise to care.
Win for the customer: Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs. Everything we do—the products we build, the partnerships we launch, the strategy we set—exists to make our customers successful. Delivery is the strategy.
Make the call: Organizations are only as strong as the pace at which they make decisions. Everyone at Percepta should feel empowered to commit and shape the ambiguity in front of them. But "make the call" cuts both ways: make the decision and make the phone call. High-agency decision-making only works with high-bandwidth communication and we commit to never operate in silos.
Intensity with kindness: We believe in excellence in execution, candor in feedback, ruthlessness in prioritization, and survivalist urgency. We also believe you don't need to be an asshole to deliver on any of this. The trust built through shared kindness and vulnerability is what makes the intensity sustainable.

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