Founding Data Engineer: Build AI-Ready Pipelines & Tools

Percepta

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Percepta is hiring one of the founding members of its data team, a role that spans data engineering, data science and ML engineering. The right candidate will not be boxed into one area, but will have a center of gravity in one with range across others.

As a founding hire, you are writing the playbook—building pipelines, models, data packs, and ontology that turn messy enterprise data into AI-ready assets, and creating tooling to make data work faster and repeatable across customers.

Qualifications

  • Experience across data science, data engineering or ML.
  • Product instinct to build the enabling work.
  • Ability to own and ship in ambiguous environments.
  • Strong communication with customer teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build end-to-end pipelines and models from messy enterprise data into AI-ready assets.
  • Structure and normalize datasets, define data packs and ontology for AI engineers.
  • Develop internal data tooling to accelerate deployment across customers.

Skills

Data Science
Data Engineering
Machine Learning
Product instinct
Ownership

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Percepta is hiring one of the founding members of its data team, a role that spans data engineering, data science and ML engineering. The right candidate will not be boxed into one area, but will have a center of gravity in one with range across others.

As a founding hire, you are writing the playbook—building pipelines, models, data packs, and ontology that turn messy enterprise data into AI-ready assets, and creating tooling to make data work faster and repeatable across customers.

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