Senior Staff Applied Ai Engineer - Context Retrieval
Databricks Lakehouse
Mountain View, California, US
Not specified; eligible for annual performance bon...
On-site
10+ years software engineering experience
Deep information retrieval expertise
Production rag system development
This zero-to-one role focuses on building the foundational retrieval stack and search subagents that power Databricks agents
Job Summary
This zero-to-one role focuses on building the foundational retrieval stack and search subagents that power Databricks agents.
The engineer will own the end-to-end system including query understanding, hybrid retrieval, ranking, and evaluation across structured and unstructured data.
Candidates must demonstrate a track record of building retrieval systems from scratch while operating as a technical leader to set multi-year roadmaps.
Matching Summary
This zero-to-one role focuses on building the foundational retrieval stack and search subagents that power Databricks agents.
Salary
Not specified; Eligible for annual performance bonus; Equity included
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
10+ years software engineering experience
Deep Information Retrieval expertise
Production RAG system development
Agentic systems design
Structured and unstructured data indexing
Nice-to-have
Enterprise SaaS source experience
Open-source IR project contributions
Embedding model fine-tuning
Multi-turn retrieval workflows
Publications at SIGIR or KDD
Key Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience
Significant time building production retrieval systems