Kharon

Sr. AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

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London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own and advance content discovery capabilities in Corestream and across Kharon's products.
  • Redesign and improve hybrid search using BM25 tuning, semantic distance, RAG, reranking, and graph-based signals.
  • Build agentic search, intelligent categorization, personalized feeds, and systems that surface relevant connections across large intelligence collections.
  • Evolve the narrative-generation pipeline that transforms graph and analytical data into accurate written intelligence.
  • Own initiatives end to end from opportunity identification and evaluation through prototyping, production implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering while influencing priorities and architectural decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Data Science, AI Engineering, ML Engineering, or related software engineering roles.
  • Hands-on information-retrieval experience with lexical search, embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, ranking, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
  • Practical experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows.
  • Strong Python skills and the ability to turn prototypes into reliable, maintainable production software.
  • Demonstrated initiative, technical ownership, independent problem-solving, and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Proven interest or experience in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains.
  • Bonus: experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into retrieval systems.
  • Curiosity about emerging approaches combined with pragmatic judgment about what works.

Benefits

  • Fully sponsored private health insurance.
  • Pension plan with a 3% employer contribution.
  • Annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days per week in the workplace.
  • Full-time role based in London, UK, with a 180-day probationary period and monthly pay.
Kharon

About Kharon

51-200 employees

Kharon builds a risk intelligence platform and datasets that map connections to sanctioned and other high‑risk actors, supporting sanctions, anti‑money laundering, export controls, forced labor, and third‑party due diligence. Delivered via SaaS and APIs backed by a research-driven knowledge graph, it supports compliance and investigative workflows for global banks, corporations, universities, and government agencies. Privately held and founded in 2016, Kharon is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

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