# Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data at Percepta Labs

- Company: Percepta Labs
- What the company does: Percepta is a General Catalyst transformation company helping critical institutions actualize AI transformation. Backed by Techstars.
- Company website: https://percepta.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/percepta/10a4c0b2-c2e9-4cb6-afe8-5612706243a1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/percepta-labs-founding-applied-ai-engineer-data/

## About the role

We're hiring one of the founding members of Percepta's data team — a role that lives across the full spectrum from data engineering to data science to ML engineering. You won't be boxed into one of those; the best person here has a center of gravity in one and real range across the others. Be the data person. Build the pipelines, models, analysis, "data packs," and ontology that turn messy enterprise data into something AI can actually use — and do it fast, inside real customer environments.

## What they're looking for

- Strong experience around some combination of Data Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning
- A product instinct for the second half of the job — you want to build the thing that makes the work easier, not just do the work
- Intuition for what modern AI/ML and LLM systems actually need from data (features, retrieval, context, embeddings)
- High ownership and strong communication — you're comfortable embedded directly with customer teams

Tags: Engineering