Applied AI Research Engineer — Production & Embedded

percepta.ai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) matching

Health benefits

Lunch provided

Autonomy culture

Job summary

Percepta, based in New York, is seeking a Research Engineer to build and scale modeling capabilities within embedded product teams. You’ll work on large-scale training/inference infrastructure across world modeling, forecasting, user modeling, and optimization, delivering production-ready systems inside customer environments.

You’ll prototype AI systems, partner with Embedded Product Managers, and contribute new features back into Mosaic, helping transform applied AI into real-world impact for

Qualifications

• Experience with high-performance distributed systems.
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade AI infrastructure.
• Strong collaboration with research and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Bridge research and product teams to deploy production systems.
• Prototype and deploy AI systems in production environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure adoption and trust.
• Embed within customer environments and raise data/infrastructure capabilities.
• Contribute new features back to Mosaic and platform tooling.
• Translate learnings into reusable playbooks for customers.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI infra

Production systems

Research collaboration

Tools

Ray

Kubernetes

vLLM

Job description

Percepta, based in New York, is seeking a Research Engineer to build and scale modeling capabilities within embedded product teams. You’ll work on large-scale training/inference infrastructure across world modeling, forecasting, user modeling, and optimization, delivering production-ready systems inside customer environments.

You’ll prototype AI systems, partner with Embedded Product Managers, and contribute new features back into Mosaic, helping transform applied AI into real-world impact for