Senior Research Engineer — Agentic Retrieval & LLMs

Hornet; Trondheim; On-site; NOK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity stake

Immediate impact on projects

Exposure to enterprise AI deployments

Flexible office-centric culture

Job summary

An innovative AI startup in Trondheim is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to advance their cutting-edge retrieval infrastructure. The ideal candidate will bridge theoretical research and engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in Machine Learning, particularly in Natural Language Processing. Responsibilities include advising enterprise clients, enhancing ML systems, and producing technical content. They offer competitive salary and equity stakes in a collaborative team focused on impactful work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning focused on NLP or IR.
• Strong understanding of dense and sparse retrieval and evaluation metrics.
• Experience building robust evaluation pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical advisor for enterprise customers.
• Translate research insights into actionable feedback for engineering.
• Produce high-quality technical content, including whitepapers and blog posts.

Skills

Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Python

Deep Learning Frameworks

Evaluation Metrics

Communication

Education

Master’s or PhD in Computer Science/Machine Learning

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Hugging Face Ecosystem

Job description

An innovative AI startup in Trondheim is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to advance their cutting-edge retrieval infrastructure. The ideal candidate will bridge theoretical research and engineering, with at least 5 years of experience in Machine Learning, particularly in Natural Language Processing. Responsibilities include advising enterprise clients, enhancing ML systems, and producing technical content. They offer competitive salary and equity stakes in a collaborative team focused on impactful work.