Senior AI Engineer — Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG)

Bangalore, India on site Until 10/3/2026 5+ years exp First posted August 4, 2026 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

Senior AI Engineer — Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG)

Location Bengaluru (hybrid)

Experience Indicative 5–8 years

Start Month 1–2

About the role

Retrieval over a team's private research corpus — grounded, cited, and measurable — is the paid core of the

product. This role owns the capability end to end, from ingestion to retrieval quality, connecting across multiple

sources of information for research institutions and enterprise research teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the retrieval pipeline: document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking.

• Build dual-corpus retrieval across published literature and private institutional documents, with provenance.

• Build citation and identifier resolution (DOI/arXiv-class) and large-corpus onboarding.

• Own retrieval evaluation: build the harness, set the metrics, prove improvement release over release.

Requirements

• ML/backend engineering with production RAG, search, or IR systems experience.

• Strong Python; hands-on with embeddings, vector stores, and rerankers; graph databases a plus.

• Demonstrated evaluation rigor: you can show how you measured and improved retrieval quality.

• Comfort with scientific or technical document corpora is a plus.

About this role

Summary

Own retrieval pipeline, build dual-corpus retrieval, optimize retrieval quality.

Job title

Senior AI Engineer — Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG)

Experience level

5-8 years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Bangalore, India; hybrid work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonembeddingsvector storesrerankerssearchIR systems

Preferred skills

graph databasesscientific document corpora

Specializations

retrievalembeddingssearchIR systemsvector stores
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hybrid City