Percepta
Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data
$150K–$400K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
About the job
Builds production data and AI systems for enterprise customers while developing repeatable tooling that makes this work faster across customers.
What you'll do
- Build production models and end-to-end pipelines that make fragmented enterprise data usable for AI, including serving, retraining, and monitoring.
- Integrate LLMs into production data pipelines and evaluate output quality and reliability.
- Develop internal data tooling and make technical decisions about data models, storage, orchestration, and infrastructure.
What they ask for
- Strong experience in some combination of Data Science, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning.
- Ability to design systems combining real-time streaming and batch/warehouse data under latency constraints.
- Fluency evaluating ML metrics, skepticism toward data quality, and ability to investigate raw records.
- Fluency with AI-assisted coding tools, sound independent verification, product instinct, and comfort working directly with customer teams.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic or automated data-engineering tooling; hands-on experience with Databricks or Kafka.
- Experience with healthcare or other complex regulated enterprise data, LLM structured extraction pipelines, or startup, founding, or forward-deployed work.
Pay
$150K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
Databricks, Kafka, AUC, precision/recall, confusion matrices
AI focus
Build AI-ready data assets, production ML systems, and LLM-integrated pipelines; develop agentic or automated data tooling.
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