Retrieval & Context Engineer
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About the Position
Make organisational knowledge useful to agents through reliable retrieval, explicit provenance and carefully selected context.
Location
Kyiv / remote
Experience
Mid / Senior
Working arrangement
Arrangement to be discussed
Responsibilities
- Develop ingestion, indexing, retrieval and reranking pipelines for changing data.
- Design context selection and memory updates with access-control boundaries.
- Build evaluation sets for relevance, grounded answers and retrieval failure modes.
Requirements
- Experience with search, embeddings or information retrieval in a production system.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with attention to data quality and document structure.
- Ability to design a baseline and explain improvements using measurable evidence.
Useful evidence
- A search or retrieval system, evaluation report or relevant open-source contribution.
- Knowledge graphs, multilingual search and temporal data are useful experience.
Working terms
- Startup culture, a goal-oriented team, and a research mindset
- The opportunity to apply your engineering skills to tools and systems for fellow engineers and help shape the future of AI
- Latest-generation MacBook Pro
- An in-house GPU cluster for training and experimentation
- 20 working days of annual leave
- English courses, educational events, and conferences
- Medical insurance
Tools & systems
Python, ColBERT, PostgreSQL, Graphiti, OpenTelemetry
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We areDataRoot Labs(DRL) — a team of experts with an ambition to help Ukrainian Data Science and AI industries flourish. We’ve been creating R&D for well-funded startups from Europe, Israel, and the US since 2016.We enjoy working on complex AI projects using state-of-the-art technologies and solutions. The harder the challenge, the funnier the project.Our team is not only a band of enthusiasts and professionals but also a place for great individuals with a strong get-shit-done attitude. Everyone believes that most of the time, bureaucracy is what stops us from doing more. That’s why the team structure is flat — you can talk to anyone for collaboration, ideas sharing or ask for help.Our office is in the Kyiv downtown, with a magnificent360-viewon the Ukrainian capital.In 2017, we startedDataRoot Universitywith a goal to deliver the most comprehensive data science and machine learning courses completely for free.Visit ourwebsiteto learn more.Follow us on social media:LinkedInTelegram channel
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