Applied AI Engineer - Manager
AI summary of the role
Player-coach Engineering Manager at Percepta, General Catalyst's AI transformation studio, leading a small team of Applied AI Engineers embedded with enterprise customers.
What you’ll do
- Manage and grow a small team of Applied AI Engineers, focusing on their 6-12 month trajectory
- Write code regularly, review designs, pair on complex problems, and step in during launches
- Own technical outcomes and make final calls on expensive-to-reverse decisions
- Set standards for code quality, testing, review rigor, and documentation
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years building production software, with at least 2 leading or managing engineers
- Still writes code and wants to keep writing code, specifically Python and TypeScript
- Track record of developing engineers who improved noticeably due to your management
- Systems taste: can explain design trade-offs and where designs will strain
Technologies
Python · TypeScript · LLMs · Agents · Evals · Mosaic · AI dev tooling
About Percepta
General Catalyst's in-house AI transformation studio deploying engineers, researchers, and PMs directly into enterprises to build agentic workflows via Mosaic toolkit.
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