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Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

Databricks·📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Employment

Full-Time

Work mode

On-site

Experience

SENIOR LEVEL

Salary

$228.6K – $342.8K/yr

Role overview

Job description

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 infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. The Mission Databricks agents are only as good as the context they can retrieve. Whether an agent is answering a question about last quarter's revenue, debugging a failing job, generating SQL against a 10,000-table lakehouse, or summarizing a Wiki page, its quality is bounded by what it can find — and how well it understands what it finds. We are hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to own context retrieval for Databricks agents across SaaS providers . This is a zero-to-one role with two deeply connected charte

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What they are looking for

Skills & requirements

Qualification

Stand up offline evals (nDCG, MRR, Recall@K, Precision@K), LLM-as-judge harnesses, human-in-the-loop labeling, and online experimentation; Hands-on experience with modern LLM-era retrieval : RAG architectures, query rewriting, re-ranking with cross-encoders, long-context strategies, and grounding techniques that reduce hallucination; Strong grasp of relevance evaluation : nDCG, MRR, Precision@K, Recall@K; offline/online experimentation; LLM-as-judge frameworks; building human labeling pipelines; Background in agentic systems, tool use, or multi-turn retrieval for LLM agents

Department · Engineering

Hiring company

Databricks

Technology

Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.

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