3 months ago
Madrid, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and continuously improve AI agents and tools using web access, semantic and hybrid retrieval, structured-data querying, internal APIs, and knowledge graphs.
- Design, implement, and evaluate agentic workflows and multi-agent systems while balancing accuracy, latency, autonomy, and control.
- Define evaluation frameworks and metrics for retrieval quality, agent performance, factual accuracy, and business relevance.
- Partner with Research, Product, and Engineering to prototype, test, and refine new capabilities.
- Take solutions from prototype to production through API development, GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes deployments on AWS.
- Own system and service lifecycles, including architecture, implementation, deployment, adoption, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in AI engineering, data science, software engineering, data engineering, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Production experience building and operating RAG pipelines and agentic systems.
- Hands-on expertise with BM25, vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
- Experience designing APIs and deploying containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Ability to rapidly prototype agentic workflows, make pragmatic production decisions, and translate ambiguous business requirements into technical roadmaps.
- Strong product judgment, ownership, and independent execution skills.
- Interest in or experience with global security, financial crime, sanctions, export controls, or related domains.
- Bonus experience with graph-aware retrieval, graph databases, or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into search and agentic systems.
Benefits
- Annual remuneration of €95,000–€115,000 plus a discretionary annual bonus.
- Full-time role based in Madrid, Spain, with a hybrid arrangement of three days per week.
- Monthly pay frequency and a 180-day probationary period.
- Kharon is unable to offer visa sponsorship; candidates must have the right to work in Europe and Spain.
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About Kharon
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.