Engineering Manager: Applied AI
Copia Automation · New York City, NY
$172,000–$226,000
Jun 30, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An Engineering Manager role leading a small team of full-stack engineers responsible for building and shipping AI-powered features — including a coding copilot and GenAI integrations across existing source control and device management products — for a platform serving industrial automation environments. The position combines people management (hiring, mentoring, performance) with hands-on technical oversight of LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and full-stack architecture. It suits an experienced engineer-turned-manager comfortable operating in an early-stage, fast-moving context where the team's scope is still being defined.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $172,000–$226,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 400 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 170–600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $220,035 (middle half $175,731–$291,850). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is a hybrid Engineering Manager position — the JD explicitly expects direct reports, hiring, 1:1s, and performance management, making 11-3021 the primary SOC. However, the posting also emphasizes hands-on technical contributions (code review, architecture, occasional PRs), so 15-1252 is a meaningful runner-up.
The title 'Engineering Manager' carries no explicit seniority level word (Junior/Senior/Staff/etc.), so the title states no level. The scope — one team, reporting to a VP — maps to a Senior-band management role.
The 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience is stated as a role-level requirement; the 1–2 years of people-leadership is an additional gate, but the overall experience floor is 5 years.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, this is not a hard degree gate.
LLM APIs and RAG are called out as hard requirements ('shipping applications backed by LLM APIs, RAG, and related GenAI techniques'). Daily fluency with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot cited as examples) is also a stated requirement.
The full technology stack (TypeScript, Node.js, React, Go, C#, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Datadog) appears only under 'Bonus points' and is explicitly framed as preferred/nice-to-have.
CI/CD, evaluation frameworks, and model fine-tuning also appear under 'Bonus points' and are preferred.
The role is hybrid (NYC HQ), not fully remote; relocation assistance is mentioned for qualifying candidates.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): full-stack engineering.
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