Backed by Y Combinator and Lux.
About the role
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Applied AI team. This team’s mandate is to bring cutting-edge AI into the hands of industrial automation engineers — designing, building, and owning the GenAI-powered capabilities that make Copia’s products dramatically more useful, from the Copia Copilot to AI features woven throughout our Source Control and DeviceLink products.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years of formal or informal people-leadership experience (tech lead, team lead, or direct management)
- Hands-on experience building AI-enabled products — not just using ChatGPT, but shipping applications backed by LLM APIs, RAG, and related GenAI techniques — and the judgment to tell where AI adds durable value versus where it doesn’t
- A strong technical foundation across the stack — frontend, backend, APIs, and data — and the ability to design AI-powered capabilities that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable
- Daily fluency with AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot) and a clear sense of their strengths and weaknesses, plus a track record of helping others get more out of them
- Demonstrated ability to coach engineers — helping them grow technically, take on bigger scope, and develop in their careers
- Strong written and verbal communication. You can adjust your message for engineers, executives, and partner teams without losing the substance, and you can explain complex AI work to non-technical stakeholders
More about this role
Copia Automation builds the version control and change management platform for industrial automation. Our customers are in oil & gas, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure: environments where the code running on PLCs, SCADA systems, and HMIs have direct safety implications. We bring modern software engineering practices to operational technology teams that have been underserved by tooling for decades.
We’re a well-funded startup growing fast, with enterprise customers deploying Copia across hundreds of facilities. Our headquarters is in New York City.
We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Applied AI team. This team’s mandate is to bring cutting-edge AI into the hands of industrial automation engineers — designing, building, and owning the GenAI-powered capabilities that make Copia’s products dramatically more useful, from the Copia Copilot to AI features woven throughout our Source Control and DeviceLink products.
Reporting into the VP of Engineering, you will lead a group of full-stack software engineers who build AI-enabled tooling end to end, and partner closely with the Product, Design, and other Engineering leaders who depend on what you ship. You’ll support,...
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