Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

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$229K-$343K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

145% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Growth-stage From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California 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 charters: - Build the retrieval stack - query understanding, content understanding, ranking, retrieval, and evaluation - across the Enterprise SaaS data stored across multiple systems. - Build the search subagents that sit on top of that stack and reason about what context is needed , how to retrieve it , and whether the right thing actually came back - closing the loop between an agent's intent and the substrate that serves it. If you have deep Information Retrieval wisdom, have shipped retrieval systems for RAG and agentic workloads, and

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