Embedded Research Scientist

Percepta is a company dedicated to transforming critical industries with applied AI. As an Embedded Research Scientist, you will work directly with customers to advance AI research and translate breakthroughs into production systems that address real-world business challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with customers to identify high-impact research problems at the intersection of frontier AI capabilities and critical business needs
• Design and execute research strategies across LLM post-training, RL, agentic modeling, and specialized model development that address customer-specific challenges
• Prototype and scale training pipelines, experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies with rapid iteration cycles based on customer feedback
• Conduct customer-facing evaluations at scale that demonstrate clear business value and drive adoption of AI systems in production environments
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete research questions, and translate research outcomes back into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Partner closely with Applied AI Engineers to transition successful research ideas into robust, production-ready features of our Mosaic platform
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical teams and executives, helping them understand how cutting-edge research can solve their specific problems
• Contribute to infrastructure for high-performance distributed training and establish reusable patterns that accelerate future research and deployment