Applied AI Research Engineer - Grounding & RAG Systems

Starburst; United States; On-site; USD 215,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages (ISOs)

Stock grants

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Starburst is seeking an Applied AI Research Engineer to own the intelligence layer for AIDA's agents, spanning retrieval, knowledge representation, and evaluation. You will build grounding systems, optimize retrieval pipelines, and define data representations across enterprise data sources.

You will run experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis to production deployment. We value 3+ years in IR/NLP/ML research, production RAG experience, strong evaluation methods, Python fluency, and the ability to

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in information retrieval, NLP, knowledge representation, or applied ML research.

Responsibilities

• Design and build grounding systems that connect agent reasoning to verified enterprise data sources

Skills

Information retrieval

NLP

Knowledge representation

Applied ML research

RAG systems

Grounding systems

Retrieval pipelines

Python

Vector databases

Embedding models

LLM APIs

Production deployment

Evaluation methodologies

Ship research into production

Tools

Vector databases

Embedding models

LLM APIs

Job description

Starburst is seeking an Applied AI Research Engineer to own the intelligence layer for AIDA's agents, spanning retrieval, knowledge representation, and evaluation. You will build grounding systems, optimize retrieval pipelines, and define data representations across enterprise data sources.

You will run experiments end-to-end, from hypothesis to production deployment. We value 3+ years in IR/NLP/ML research, production RAG experience, strong evaluation methods, Python fluency, and the ability to