Senior AI Research Engineer — GenAI & RAG Innovation

Showcify, Inc.; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 157.000 - 252.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Stock equity

Health benefits

401(k) and life insurance

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Development stipends

Flexible vacation

Descrizione del lavoro

Drata is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to advance AI systems through rigorous experimentation and applied research. You will own the science behind how Drata's AI products retrieve, reason, and respond, partnering with AI and Software Engineers to translate validated approaches into production-ready systems.

The role focuses on research over production engineering, with a heavy emphasis on information retrieval, RAG, and evaluation methodologies to improve the platform's trust and

Competenze

• 6+ years of experience in applied research, data science, or ML with a focus on NLP, information retrieval, or knowledge systems.

Mansioni

• Design and evaluate information access + reasoning strategies across RAG, agents, and classic ML: chunking, embedding models, hybrid search, metadata filtering, semantic routing.
• Prototype GenAI workflows (including agentic systems) that map and reason over compliance objects (controls risks requirements evidence)
• Explore ML + probabilistic approaches where GenAI is not the best fit: classifiers, ranking models, graph/link prediction, calibration, and structured prediction
• Build and maintain evaluation frameworks: golden datasets, automated quality metrics, regression detection
• Implement and tune ranking/reranking systems: cross-encoders, LLM-based rerankers, learning-to-rank, custom scoring functions
• Run experiments to validate hypotheses and quantify improvements before production rollout
• Debug failure modes and build error taxonomies across retrieval, reasoning, and generation
• Collaborate with AI and Software Engineers to hand off validated approaches for productionization
• Stay current on applied research in RAG, agents, LLM evaluation, and relevance modeling; bring innovations into the product

Conoscenze

Applied research

Natural language processing

Information retrieval

Machine learning

Python

RAG systems

Vector databases

Evaluation methodology

Communicating findings

Compliance domain knowledge

Strumenti

Vector databases

Descrizione del lavoro

Drata is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to advance AI systems through rigorous experimentation and applied research. You will own the science behind how Drata's AI products retrieve, reason, and respond, partnering with AI and Software Engineers to translate validated approaches into production-ready systems.

The role focuses on research over production engineering, with a heavy emphasis on information retrieval, RAG, and evaluation methodologies to improve the platform's trust and