Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

What this role involves

Databricks is hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to own context retrieval for agents across SaaS providers. The role involves building the full retrieval stack including query understanding, content understanding, ranking, and evaluation, as well as search subagents that reason about retrieval. The engineer will work with both structured and unstructured data sources.

Skills this posting asks for

• information retrieval
• rag
• query understanding
• content understanding
• hybrid retrieval
• ranking
• evaluation
• llm
• embeddings
• agentic reasoning
• structured data
• unstructured data
• connectors
• retrieval adapters
• query rewriting
• decomposition
• intent classification
• entity resolution
• metadata
• pipelines
• offline evals
• ndcg
• mrr
• llm-as-judge

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

P-1549 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infras…