Percepta

Embedded Research Scientist

New York City

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AWSMachine LearningLLMsResearchCommunication

About the role

You will work on post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, and specialized architectures but with a focus on translating research breakthroughs into production systems that transform how critical industries operate.
Work directly with customers to identify high-impact research problems at the intersection of frontier AI capabilities and critical business needs.
Prototype and scale training pipelines, experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies with rapid iteration cycles based on customer feedback.

Design and execute research strategies across LLM post-training, RL, agentic modeling, and specialized model development that address customer-specific challenges.
Conduct customer-facing evaluations at scale that demonstrate clear business value and drive adoption of AI systems in production environments.
Partner closely with Applied AI Engineers to transition successful research ideas into robust, production-ready features of our Mosaic platform.
Build trusted relationships with customer technical teams and executives, helping them understand how cutting-edge research can solve their specific problems.

Motivated by seeing your research deployed in production and creating value in critical industries including healthcare, supply chains, energy, and finance.

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.
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:
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.
Have a proven track record of execution.
Are an excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Enjoy extreme ownership and bringing structure to evolving requirements.

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