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Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

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 buildin

Company

Databricks

Location

Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-05-07T21:02:48+00:00

Databricks is hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to own context retrieval for its agents across enterprise SaaS data. The role builds a retrieval stack from scratch — query and content understanding, indexing, hybrid retrieval, ranking, evaluation — plus search subagents that plan multi-hop searches and judge whether retrieved context suffices. It spans structured and unstructured assets and connector work. The posting asks for 10+ years of software engineering, deep information retrieval experience, RAG and agentic systems work, and relevance evaluation. It is an onsite, zero-to-one technical leadership role.