Applied AI Engineer Europe

Who we are

Perceptas mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare manufacturing energy) benefit from frontier technology.

To make that happen we embed with industry-leading customers to drive AI transformation. We bring together:

• Forward-deployed expertise in engineering product and research

• Mosaic our in-house toolkit for rapidly deploying agentic workflows

• Strategic partnerships with Anthropic McKinsey AWS companies within the General Catalyst portfolio and more

Our team is a quickly growing group of Applied AI Engineers Embedded Product Managers and Researchers motivated by diffusing the promise of AI into improvements we can feel in our day to day lives.

Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst a global transformation and investment company.

About the role

Were hiring Applied AI Engineers who will work directly with customer executives operators and technical teams to define and deliver high-impact AI systems. We are excited to build out our European presence and you will be on the front lines of helping to define our strategy and success in the region. We dont build prototypes or laboratory projects- youll design build and ship production-grade AI agents and workflows that drive millions in business value for customers.

Our Applied AI Engineers:

• Shape the AI vision: Collaborate with customer stakeholders to define their long-term AI strategy and transformation roadmap.

• Identify high-leverage use cases: Work backwards from the long-term vision to surface and prioritize specific AI applications that connect our ambition to measurable business value.

• Ship real products: Rapidly build and deploy AI solutions that work in the wild with real users and real data.

• Advance our core product: Encode the lessons from our customer engagements in our Mosaic product consistently contributing new features patterns and abstractions.

What were looking for

• AI-nativeness: Youre excited about the potential for AI to transform businesses and want to play a hands-on role in bringing frontier technology into critical institutions.

• Being generative and collaborative: You love constantly jamming on new what if ideas with teammates and partners.

• Extreme ownership: Youre willing to jump in and love being the one on the hook. You arent going to wait to be pointed at a taskyoure going to identify what you think we should do next and then do it.

• Execution excellence and speed: You can build stuff in messy environments and know how to get code written and shipped quickly. You can hold the balance of speed and quality and know when to push the pace vs. when to slow down.

• Customer-obsession and respect: Youre motivated by understanding customer pain points and iterating directly with end users to deliver wins quickly.

Bonus if you have

• Hands-on experience with LLM tooling (LangGraph Mastra Agents SDK etc).

• Built and deployed production LLM-powered systems (tool use RAG pipelines multi-step agents human-in-the-loop etc).

• Strong technical foundations in Python/TypeScript cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure) and DevOps tooling.

• Prior startup or founding engineer experience balancing craft ownership and speed.

Were working against an incredibly ambitious mission. It wont be easy but it will likely be the most fulfilling work of your career. If this excites you lets chat even if you dont 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 were 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 isnt a 9-5 nor is it a job were 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 dothe products we build the partnerships we launch the strategy we setexists 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 dont 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.

Required Experience:

IC