Percepta
Research Engineer / Scientist – Reinforcement Learning (RL)
New York City
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 181 days ago
Node.jsAWSKubernetesMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsResearchCommunication
About the role
- As a Research Engineer/Scientist (Reinforcement Learning) at Percepta, you will work at the intersection of RL research and real-world deployment.
- You will advance the frontier of capabilities through research on decision-making for critical industries.
- Identifying which real-world challenges are tractable for RL-guided decision making.
Responsibilities
- Develop RL methods to perform complex tasks in domains like planning, decision-making, or optimization.
- Develop and maintain the experimental infrastructure that powers our research, from simulation environments and data pipelines to training and evaluation frameworks.
- 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.
- Understand how to perform rigorous RL experimentation.
- Believe that AI can drive transformative change in critical industries.
Requirements
- Experience with vLLM/SGLang, Ray, Kubernetes (or AWS EKS).
- Experience with distributed checkpointing, multi-node, multi-gpu training, custom KV-caching.
Skills
- Possess strong programming skills, especially in Python.
Benefits
- Are motivated by impact in critical industries including healthcare, supply chains, energy, and finance.
- 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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