Embedded Research Scientist

The role

You will advance AI research by working directly with customers to translate research breakthroughs into production systems. You will design research strategies in LLM post-training, RL, and agentic modeling to solve business problems.

What you will do

• Identify high-impact research problems with customers.
• Design and execute research strategies across LLM post-training, RL, agentic modeling, and specialized model development.
• Prototype and scale training pipelines.
• Experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies.
• Conduct customer-facing evaluations at scale.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete research questions.
• Translate research outcomes into actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Partner with Applied AI Engineers to transition research into the Mosaic platform.
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical teams and executives.
• Contribute to infrastructure for high-performance distributed training.

Required qualifications

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Depth in LLM and ML fundamentals.
• Comfortable implementing and debugging large-scale ML systems.
• Ability to work directly with customers.
• Ability to translate business problems into research problems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to iterate based on customer feedback.
• Proven track record of execution.
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to bring structure to evolving requirements.

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's mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI by embedding with industry-leading customers.