Machine Learning Engineer

Percepta is hiring Machine Learning Engineers to work directly with customer teams to define and deliver high-impact AI systems. The team is a quickly growing group of Applied AI Engineers, Embedded Product Managers, and Researchers motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements in day-to-day lives.

Requirements

• AI/ML systems engineer and optimizer
• Builds end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, training, evaluation, and deployment
• Adapts and extends LLM models with fine-tuning, distillation, retrieval systems, and tool-use
• Evaluates AI systems rigorously and develops custom evaluations
• Brings frontier methods into practice and tracks the latest techniques in areas like RAG, tool use, multi-step agent orchestration, fine-tuning methods, and evaluation frameworks
• Collaborates across product and research and partners with research and product teams to turn frontier techniques into production-ready features and workflows
• Advances core product and encodes lessons from customer engagements in Mosaic product
• Has hands-on experience building and deploying production models / AI systems
• Is generative and collaborative, loves constantly jamming on new 'what if' ideas with teammates and partners
• Has extreme ownership and is willing to jump in and love being the one on the hook
• Has execution excellence and speed, can build stuff in messy environments and know how to get code written and shipped quickly
• Is customer-obsessed and respectful, motivated by understanding customer pain points and iterating directly with end users to deliver wins quickly