Percepta is a company dedicated to transforming critical institutions with applied AI. The Research Engineer/Scientist will advance large-scale language model building and deployment, collaborating with product managers and engineers to enhance decision systems in various industries.
Responsibilities:
- Identify impactful problems and design research strategies across pre-training, post-training, RL, and specialized model development
- Prototype and scale training pipelines for large language models, experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies
- Contribute to infrastructure for high-performance distributed training
- Conduct in-the-wild evaluations at scale that drive millions of dollars in value
- Partner with our applied AI engineers to transition successful research ideas into robust features of our Mosaic platform
- Communicate research outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, making sure everyone understands the 'so what' of research and how to apply it