AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owning and evolving Corestream, Kharon's risk intelligence feed — a dynamic platform that surfaces entity-level insights and topic-based risk narratives to customers
• Redesigning and improving Kharon's semantic search capabilities, opening new avenues for content discovery — drawing on modern approaches including BM25 tuning, semantic distance, RAG, and reranking
• Integrating Kharon's risk analysis outputs into the search layer, ensuring that graph-based insights surface meaningfully within search results and sub-network exploration
• Driving the evolution of Kharon's narrative generation pipeline — how we take graph and analytical data and transform it into compelling, accurate written intelligence for customers
• Partnering with Product and Engineering to take ownership of the Corestream roadmap and push it to its next stage
• Tweaking and optimizing the metrics that define search quality and narrative relevance

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A proven interest or experience in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains
• 3+ years of experience in a Data Science or AI Engineering role
• Hands-on experience with semantic search — including familiarity with BM25, vector search, reranking, and retrieval evaluation
• Experience with RAG pipelines and working with agentic systems in production
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong product alignment — able to read a roadmap, take ownership of tickets, and drive initiatives forward independently
• Bonus: Experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge graph outputs into retrieval systems

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