Principal Data Scientist - Agentic AI & RAG Platform

Elastic; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid health coverage

Flexible location and schedule

Generous vacation days

Minimum of 16 weeks parental leave

40 hours for volunteering annually

Donation matching up to $1500

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Ireland to enhance their conversational and agentic platform. This position involves substantial responsibility in building quality layers and guiding evaluation strategies for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and models.

Candidates should possess over 8 years of experience in data science and a deep understanding of retrieval systems. The role offers a flexible working environment and an emphasis on collaboration and mentorship within a distributed team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of applied DS/ML experience in relevant fields.
• Strong understanding of retrieval systems and evaluation metrics.
• Hands-on ability with Python and collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build quality layer for RAG and tools in Elastic's platform.
• Define evaluation strategy for product decisions.
• Lead design of metrics and decision frameworks.

Skills

Applied DS/ML experience

IR expertise

NLP expertise

Ranking expertise

Semantic search

Python

PyTorch/Transformers

Collaboration skills

Education

8+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Elasticsearch

Pandas

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Ireland to enhance their conversational and agentic platform. This position involves substantial responsibility in building quality layers and guiding evaluation strategies for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and models.

Candidates should possess over 8 years of experience in data science and a deep understanding of retrieval systems. The role offers a flexible working environment and an emphasis on collaboration and mentorship within a distributed team.