Kharon

Sr. AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

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Madrid, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

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

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, or 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.
  • Experience or proven interest in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains.
  • Demonstrated initiative, technical ownership, independent problem-solving, stakeholder collaboration, and willingness to experiment pragmatically.
  • Bonus: experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into retrieval systems.

Benefits

  • Annual remuneration of €95,000–€115,000 plus a discretionary annual bonus.
  • Monthly pay frequency and a 180-day probationary period.
  • Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days per week in the office.
  • Full-time role based in Madrid, Spain.

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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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