Percepta
Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data
New York City. Posted 3 months ago
The role
This founding member of the data team will build data pipelines, models, and analysis to turn enterprise data into AI-ready assets. You will also build internal product tooling and automated systems to make data work repeatable across customers.
What you will do
- Turn high-value use cases from ideas to production
- Own the full lifecycle of a model in production
- Build end-to-end pipelines for streaming and batch sources
- Integrate LLMs directly into production pipelines
- Build internal product and tooling for repeatable data work
- Form and socialize technical opinions on data models, storage, orchestration, and infra tradeoffs
Required qualifications
- Strong experience around some combination of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning
- Comfort designing systems that reconcile real-time streaming data and batch/warehouse data under real latency constraints
- Fluency reading and questioning ML model evaluation metrics
- Demonstrated instinct for data skepticism
- Fluency using AI-assisted coding tools as a primary workflow
- Product instinct for building tools that make work easier
- Intuition for what modern AI/ML and LLM systems need from data
- High ownership and strong communication
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic or automated data-engineering tooling
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks) and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Experience with health-system data (EHR, claims, ADT feeds, and other operational healthcare datasets) or other complex, regulated enterprise data
- Experience using an LLM as a structured-extraction step inside a larger data pipeline
- Prior startup, founding, or forward-deployed experience
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity
- 401(k) matching
- Comprehensive health and family benefits
- Lunch every day
About the company
Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst. The company aims to transform critical institutions with applied AI by embedding with industry-leading customers.