Percepta

Research Engineer / Scientist – Optimization

New York City

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 293 days ago

AWSMachine LearningResearchCommunication

About the role

As a Research Engineer/Scientist (Optimization) at Percepta, you'll work at the intersection of AI research and real-world impact.
You will advance the frontier of decision-making for critical industries by combining modern machine learning with rigorous optimization research.

Set and drive ambitious research programs that expand what's achievable in data-driven decision-making.
Build high-fidelity simulators and rigorous benchmarks that mirror real-world constraints, uncertainty, and multi-objective trade-offs.
Bridge research into practice by partnering with our engineers to rapidly prototype solutions and implement successful research ideas.

Hold a degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or Applied Mathematics (MS/PhD preferred) or have equivalent research/ industry experience.

Have experience in novel machine learning techniques for Operations Research.
Are motivated by impact 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.
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.

This listing is sourced directly from Percepta's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.