layiq

/la·yiq/adjective

worthy; deserving; fitting; suitable.

A role, opportunity, or path that merits attention, time, and pursuit.

Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data at Percepta | LAYIQ

You might come from any point on the spectrum — a strong data engineer; a software engineer who's done real data work; someone who's done data science and software; or an ML engineer who now wants to build more. What's common: you can build in ambiguity, you form opinions and ship, and you care about building leverage, not just outputs.
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
Nice To Have
Experience building agentic or automated data-engineering tooling
Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks)
Experience with health-system data (EHR, claims, and other operational healthcare datasets) or other complex, regulated enterprise data
Prior startup, founding, or forward-deployed experience
We’re working against an incredibly ambitious mission. It won’t be easy, but it will likely be the most fulfilling work of your career. If this excites you, let's chat, even if you don't meet all of the qualifications above.
Our Values
Dream bigger: We have the unique privilege of taking on the most ambitious problems and we should chase them with optimism, responsibility, and genuine belief that we can make it happen. We have to embrace the hard things when no one else will.
Heart in the game: What we're doing matters and we have to give a shit. Internally, that means fixing badness when you find it. Externally, it means honoring the trust our customers place in us with their most important problems. This isn’t a 9-5, nor is it a job we’re ever going to monitor your hours. We promise to put work in front of you that matters and in return, we ask you to promise to care.
Win for the customer: Everyone is an engineer and the job of an engineer is to deliver outcomes, not outputs. Everything we do—the products we build, the partnerships we launch, the strategy we set—exists to make our customers successful. Delivery is the strategy.
Make the call: Organizations are only as strong as the pace at which they make decisions. Everyone at Percepta should feel empowered to commit and shape the ambiguity in front of them. But "make the call" cuts both ways: make the decision and make the phone call. High-agency decision-making only works with high-bandwidth communication and we commit to never operate in silos.
Intensity with kindness: We believe in excellence in execution, candor in feedback, ruthlessness in prioritization, and survivalist urgency. We also believe you don't need to be an asshole to deliver on any of this. The trust built through shared kindness and vulnerability is what makes the intensity sustainable.

Founding Applied AI Engineer - Data

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