Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval
Databricksabout 2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$229k - $343k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build the full retrieval stack from scratch, including query and content understanding.
- Retrieve across heterogeneous data, indexing and ranking both structured and unstructured assets.
- Connect to the SaaS surface area where enterprise knowledge resides.
- Optimize retrieval for both LLMs and human users.
- Develop query understanding tailored for agentic workflows.
- Create pipelines for content understanding at scale.
- Design search subagents that reason about retrieval needs.
- Establish evaluation metrics and processes for retrieval and subagents.
- Set technical direction and mentor team members.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on production retrieval systems.
- Deep expertise in Information Retrieval techniques and systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern LLM-era retrieval methods.
- Experience designing agentic systems on top of retrieval.
- Strong understanding of relevance evaluation metrics and methodologies.
- Experience working with both structured and unstructured data.
- Proven track record of building systems from the ground up.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.