Research Engineer / Scientist – Modeling

Percepta
New York, Boston
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Ownership"]

Research Engineer/Scientist focusing on large-scale language model modeling, pre-training, post-training, RL, and specialized architectures. Collaborates with Embedded Product Managers and engineers to advance distributed training infrastructure, evaluate models at scale, and translate research into features for the Mosaic platform, driving impact in critical industries.

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11 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist – Modeling

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Job Summary

Research Engineer/Scientist focusing on large-scale language model modeling, pre-training, post-training, RL, and specialized architectures. Collaborates with Embedded Product Managers and engineers to advance distributed training infrastructure, evaluate models at scale, and translate research into features for the Mosaic platform, driving impact in critical industries.
Location: New York, Boston
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key 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.

Key Requirements

  • •Have an MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • •Have depth in LLM and ML fundamentals from optimization to large scale training to Reinforcement Learning
  • •Are comfortable implementing and debugging large-scale ML systems.
  • •Are motivated by impact in critical industries including healthcare, supply chains, energy, and finance.
  • •Have a proven track record of execution.
Experience:AIMLLLM
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLMReinforcement learningDistributed trainingInstruction tuningDistillation

Company Brief

Percepta
Percepta (Percepta Labs) builds ethical, real-time computer-vision video analytics for retail loss prevention, focusing on privacy-preserving shoplifting detection and bias mitigation for retailers and institutions.
Industry: Surveillance & Security Hardware
Company Size: Micro (1 to 10 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Philadelphia, United States
Founded: 2019
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