Percepta
Embedded Research Scientist
$180K–$400K
New York City +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- New York City
Boston - Education
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Conduct customer-embedded AI research and turn research advances into production systems that address critical-industry business problems.
What you'll do
- Identify customer research needs and design research strategies across post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, and specialized models.
- Build and evaluate training pipelines and model approaches, iterating with customer feedback to demonstrate business value.
- Partner with engineering teams to deploy successful research in production and contribute to distributed-training infrastructure.
What they ask for
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Depth in LLM and ML fundamentals.
- Ability to implement and debug large-scale ML systems.
- Ability to work directly with customers and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Pay
$180K – $400K (currency not stated; compensation type not stated)
Tools
LLM, ML, RL, Mosaic
AI focus
Research and develop AI systems, including LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, specialized architectures, and production deployment.
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