Founding Applied AI Engineer: Data & Platform Builder

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

Job summary

Percepta in New York is seeking a founding member of its data team to span data engineering, data science, and ML engineering. You will not be boxed into one domain; the role centers on building pipelines and data products that power AI for complex customer environments.

As a founding hire, you’ll write the data playbook and shape productized data workflows, collaborating with operators and AI engineers to deploy high-value analytics at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience across data science, data engineering, or ML engineering.
• Able to ship in ambiguity and build leverage.
• Intuition for what AI/ML systems need from data.
• Strong ownership and communication with customer teams.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end pipelines and models turning messy data into AI-ready assets.
• Structure and normalize datasets, define data packs and ontology.
• Create internal tooling to make data work faster and reusable across customers.
• Collaborate with operators and AI engineers to productionize high-value use cases.
• Take strong technical ownership and make data-related calls.

Skills

Data Science

Data Engineering

Machine Learning

Product instinct

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Percepta in New York is seeking a founding member of its data team to span data engineering, data science, and ML engineering. You will not be boxed into one domain; the role centers on building pipelines and data products that power AI for complex customer environments.

As a founding hire, you’ll write the data playbook and shape productized data workflows, collaborating with operators and AI engineers to deploy high-value analytics at scale.