Product Engineer

Percepta • New York, NY

81d • $300,000 - $425,000

About The Position

Percepta is seeking Product Engineers to build foundational, cross-cutting products for multi-engagement tools. These products will empower Perceptrons to deliver their best work and highlight Percepta's differentiation. The role emphasizes forward-deployed engineering, requiring engineers to embed with customers, understand their systems, and ship solutions. This hands-on experience is crucial for developing products that generalize across various customer needs. Initially, engineers will act as applied AI engineers, delivering work directly to customers, understanding their constraints, and identifying areas for improvement. After gaining this field experience, engineers will dedicate time to developing and proposing new products, presenting their cases to leadership, and potentially owning the roadmap, rollout, and adoption of their creations. A significant portion of the role involves exploring and creating new product opportunities, with the expectation that candidates can articulate the target market, timing, and competitive advantage of their proposed solutions. Products can be either vertical (industry-specific, like operationalizing a hospital system) or horizontal (cross-deployment tools like agent tooling, evaluation, or deployment surfaces).

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production software, with a track record of taking a product from zero to one.
• Fluency in Python and TypeScript.
• Ability to build abstractions when they don't exist and ensure their long-term usability.
• Strong product instinct: ability to identify the target user, the product's value proposition, and its market fit.
• High agency in ambiguous problem spaces, with the judgment to know when to collaborate.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to persuade customers and internal stakeholders.
• Comfort with periodic customer interaction and shipping into external environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with workflow orchestration or task execution frameworks.
• Experience building internal developer platforms.
• Deep domain expertise in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, or financial services.
• Prior experience in forward-deployed roles, consulting, or as a design partner.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a customer team and ship production delivery work.
• Take an idea from conception to a deployable and usable state, and advocate for it to stakeholders.
• Transform prototypes into generalized, hardened products that gain adoption across multiple accounts.
• Own the roadmap, rollout plan, and outcomes for developed products.
• Build reusable components and clear interfaces that teammates can extend.
• Contribute reusable parts to the Mosaic toolkit to accelerate future deployments.
• Maintain customer engagement post-launch to ensure product adoption.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed