Percepta
Research Engineer / Scientist – Modeling
New York City
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 293 days ago
AWSMachine LearningNLPLLMsResearchCommunicationAdaptability
About the role
- Prototype and scale training pipelines for large language models, experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies.
- Contribute to infrastructure for high-performance distributed training.
- Communicate research outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, making sure everyone understands the "so what" of research and how to apply it.
Responsibilities
- Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs.
- We also believe you don't need to be an asshole to deliver on any of this.
- You'll collaborate closely with our Embedded Product Managers (EPMs) and engineers to ensure our most sophisticated decision systems are both innovative and pragmatically useful in transforming how companies operate.
- Identify impactful problems and design research strategies across pre-training, post-training, RL, and specialized model development.
- Conduct in-the-wild evaluations at scale that drive millions of dollars in value.
- Partner with our applied AI engineers to transition successful research ideas into robust features of our Mosaic platform.
- Win for the customer: Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs.
Benefits
- We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier technology.
Company info
- Percepta's mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier technology. To make that happen, we embed with industry-leading customers to drive AI transformation. We bring together:
- Forward-deployed expertise in engineering, product, and research
- Mosaic, our in-house toolkit for rapidly deploying agentic workflows
- Strategic partnerships with Anthropic, McKinsey, AWS, companies within the General Catalyst portfolio, and more
- Percepta's mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI.
- To make that happen, we embed with industry-leading customers to drive AI transformation.
- We bring together:
- Our team is a quickly growing group of Applied AI Engineers, Embedded Product Managers and Researchers motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements we can feel in our day to day lives.
- Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company.
- What we're doing matters and we have to give a shit.
- Internally, that means fixing badness when you find it.
- Externally, it means honoring the trust our customers place in us with their most important problems.
- This isn't a 9-5, nor is it a job we're ever going to monitor your hours.
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