Engineering Manager: Applied AI

About Copia

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.

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.

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, mentor, and grow your team while staying close enough to the technology to provide meaningful architectural input, code review, and the occasional pull request. You’ll also help set the bar for how the broader engineering organization adopts AI coding tools and integrates GenAI responsibly into a safety-critical domain.

This role is a great fit for a hands-on line manager who is energized by a fast-moving field, comfortable making product-shaping decisions about where AI adds real leverage versus hype, and excited to set direction in an area that is still being defined. You must be comfortable collaborating through ambiguity, while supporting your team to drive predictable velocity as we continue to scale the organization.