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Capital One Financial

Staff Software Engineer - Capital One Travel - Android

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pay posted by employer$172,960–$197,400 per year

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario, Staff Software Engineer - Capital One Travel - Android About Capital One Canada. For 30 years, we've been on a …

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Becton Dickinson

Sr. Staff Engineer, R&D/Medication Delivery

USA NJ - Franklin Lakes +2 locations

In person
Full time
Regular

Pay posted by employer$168,600–$269,800 USD

The Sr. Staff R&D Engineer will be a key contributor within BD Medication Delivery Solutions, Injection Systems team. The …

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Northrop Grumman

Staff Software Engineer (Active Secret Clearance Required)

United States-Oklahoma-Oklahoma City

Pay posted by employer$144,900–$217,300

… employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. This position will support our Aeronautics Systems sector in …

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Palo Alto Networks

Staff Technical Support Engineer, Prisma SD-WAN

Office - USA - CA - Headquarters +1 location

… are not always straightforward and require strong analytical thinking and hands-on troubleshooting. As a Staff Technical Support Engineer, you’ll be involved in high-impact cases and work closely with Engineering and …

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Databricks

Staff Software Engineer – Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI)

Mountain View, California, United States +1 location

Lead / principal

Pay posted by employer$190,000–$261,250 USD

… our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we’re only getting started. As the Staff Technical Lead (TL) for Customer Experience Intelligence, you will architect and deliver Databricks' …

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Northrop Grumman

Sentinel - Staff Engineer Guidance Navigation Control - 18798

United States-Utah-Roy +2 locations

Pay posted by employer$152,900–$265,500

… your career today. Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is hiring a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Staff Engineer (level 5) to join its team in Roy UT, Huntsville AL or Manhattan Beach, CA and will support the …

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Databricks

Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

Mountain View, California, United States +1 location

Pay posted by employer$228,600–$342,800 USD

… content (docs, wikis, tickets, chat, images, video, audio). Each modality has its own signals — design retrieval that exploits them rather than flattens them. Connect to the SaaS surface area customers actually …

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Databricks

Staff Software Engineer – Genie One Mobile & Desktop

Mountain View, California, United States +1 location

Lead / principal

Pay posted by employer$190,000–$261,250 USD

… knowledge worker can move from question to insight without being constrained by a browser or a desk. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Genie One Mobile & Desktop team, you will define and deliver the technical …

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Capital One Financial

Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer, Global Payments Network

McLean, Virginia, United States +1 location

The Senior Staff Full-stack Engineer (IC) for GPN will be responsible for architecting and delivering the real-time and …

Added Oct 30, 2026

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Cisco Systems

Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform

San Francisco, California, United States +1 location

Pay posted by employer$186,900–$267,700

… of cyber defense, and eager to work alongside passionate experts, you’ll feel right at home. Your Impact Design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to …

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

Staff Engineer, Software(Python/Angular Fullstack Lead)

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

… to make significant contributions to the world. The Position We are seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer to develop software modules and applications for advanced electron microscopy systems. The role combines …

Added Oct 16, 2026

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Palo Alto Networks

Sr Staff Engineer Software (Credential Provider)

Office - Israel - Petach Tikva

… server programming (including multithreaded programming and performance tuning). Soft Skills: Excellent design and analytical skills. Strong ability to quickly learn, adopt, and deeply understand new technologies …

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Williams

Engineer - Electrical III/Sr/Staff - PEX Power East

OK Tulsa - Headquarters +1 location

Full time
Regular

/Expectations: Leads the design, implementation, and optimization of electrical systems and power distribution networks supporting critical …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Design Verification Manager

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Pay posted by employer$174,000–$352,500 USD per year

We are seeking a visionary and technically rigorous Design Verification Manager to lead our world-class silicon verification team. In this pivotal leadership role, …

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Northrop Grumman

Staff Systems Engineer - Nuclear Hardness & Survivability -18271

United States-Utah-Roy

Pay posted by employer$152,900–$229,300

… devices and software-controlled electronics (e.g., TID, NDD, dose-rate, SEE) to inform architecture and design trades Perform radiation effects circuit analysis, ground shock and thermal effects analysis, and evaluate …

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GE HealthCare Technologies

Staff Software Architect

IND19-01-Bengaluru-EPIP 122 (Phase II)

Summary GE HealthCare is seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Software Builder Tools (SBT) team in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will …

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Coupang

[Instant Commerce] Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

Beijing, Beijing, China

Full time (company default)

… business problems • Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape • Dive deep to solve critical system issues. …

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Micron Technology

STAFF ENGINEER/PRINCIPAL ENGINEER - PD SG WET PROCESS

Fab 10N/X, Singapore

… implementation Incorporate best known manufacturing methods into early development phase of upcoming nodes. Design and implement advanced process monitoring and control methodologies. Serve as a technical expert within …

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Marvell Technology

Senior Staff Field Application Engineer - Connectivity

Santa Clara, California, United States

Regular

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Coupang

Staff Security DevOps Engineer (SPIR/OC)

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Full time (company default)

… Management), 데이터 스캐닝(Data Scanning), 아이덴티티 및 접근 관리(Identity & Access Management), 보안 설계 및 코드 리뷰(Security Design & Code Review) 등 다양한 보안 및 프라이버시 서비스를 운영하고 지원하는 업무를 담당합니다. 또한 임직원이 보안 서비스를 활용하는 과정에서 발생하는 이슈를 신속하게 파악하고 …

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Databricks

Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval

Mountain View, California, United States +1 more

Pay posted by employer$228,600–$342,800 USD

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What We're Looking For · employer excerpt

10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building production retrieval, search, or RAG systems at scale.
Deep Information Retrieval (IR) expertise: lexical retrieval (BM25, Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), dense retrieval (embeddings, ANN indexes — FAISS, ScaNN, HNSW), hybrid retrieval, and learning-to-rank.
Hands-on experience with modern LLM-era retrieval: RAG architectures, query rewriting, re-ranking with cross-encoders, long-context strategies, and grounding techniques that reduce hallucination.
Experience designing agentic systems on top of retrieval — search planners, multi-hop / iterative retrieval, self-reflection and sufficiency checks, tool-using agents that decide what to fetch and verify what came back.
Strong grasp of relevance evaluation: nDCG, MRR, Precision@K, Recall@K; offline/online experimentation; LLM-as-judge frameworks; building human labeling pipelines.

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About this opportunity

Original employer description

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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

The Mission

Databricks agents are only as good as the context they can retrieve. Whether an agent is answering a question about last quarter's revenue, debugging a failing job, generating SQL against a 10,000-table lakehouse, or summarizing a Wiki page, its quality is bounded by what it can find — and how well it understands what it finds.

We are hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to own context retrieval for Databricks agents across SaaS providers. This is a zero-to-one role with two deeply connected charters:

Build the retrieval stack — query understanding, content understanding, ranking, retrieval, and evaluation — across the Enterprise SaaS data stored across multiple systems.
Build the search subagents that sit on top of that stack and reason about what context is needed, how to retrieve it, and whether the right thing actually came back — closing the loop between an agent's intent and the substrate that serves it.

If you have deep Information Retrieval wisdom, have shipped retrieval systems for RAG and agentic workloads, and want to build the substrate — and the agents on top of it — that make every Databricks agent measurably smarter, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

Build the full retrieval stack from scratch. Own the end-to-end system: query understanding, content understanding and indexing, hybrid retrieval, ranking, and evaluation. Make the architectural calls that will define how Databricks agents access context for years to come.
Retrieve across heterogeneous data — structured and unstructured. Index and rank across structured assets (tables, columns, SQL queries, dashboards, code, notebooks, jobs) and unstructured content (docs, wikis, tickets, chat, images, video, audio). Each modality has its own signals — design retrieval that exploits them rather than flattens them.
Connect to the SaaS surface area customers actually use. Build connectors and retrieval adapters for the systems where enterprise knowledge lives. Treat each retrieval source with its own freshness, permissions, and ranking signals.
Optimize for two consumers at once. Retrieval must serve both LLMs (grounded, token-efficient, hallucination-resistant context) and humans (intuitive, explainable discovery). These are different objectives and require different signals — own both.
Crack query understanding for agents. Agent queries don't look like web queries. Build query rewriting, decomposition, intent classification, and entity resolution tuned for multi-turn agentic workflows.
Crack content understanding at scale. Build the pipelines that extract structure, entities, embeddings, summaries, and metadata from every supported asset type — and keep them fresh as customer data evolves.
Build search subagents that reason about retrieval. Design the agentic layer that decides what context is needed, which sources to query, how to decompose and route the search, and — critically — whether the retrieved content is actually sufficient to answer the question. These subagents will plan multi-hop searches, issue follow-up queries when results are weak, ground claims against retrieved evidence, and hand back high-confidence context (or signal failure) to upstream agents. This is where IR meets agentic reasoning.
Build the evaluation flywheel for both retrieval and subagents. Stand up offline evals (nDCG, MRR, Recall@K, Precision@K), LLM-as-judge harnesses, human-in-the-loop labeling, and online experimentation. Extend evaluation beyond ranking metrics to measure subagent decision quality — did it ask the right follow-up?, did it correctly recognize when retrieval failed?, did it ground its answer in the right evidence?. Quality you can't measure is quality you can't ship.
Set technical direction and grow the team. Set the multi-year roadmap, mentor senior engineers, partner with Research, Product, and Platform leaders, and raise the technical bar across the org.

What We're Looking For

10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building production retrieval, search, or RAG systems at scale.
Deep Information Retrieval (IR) expertise: lexical retrieval (BM25, Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), dense retrieval (embeddings, ANN indexes — FAISS, ScaNN, HNSW), hybrid retrieval, and learning-to-rank.
Hands-on experience with modern LLM-era retrieval: RAG architectures, query rewriting, re-ranking with cross-encoders, long-context strategies, and grounding techniques that reduce hallucination.
Experience designing agentic systems on top of retrieval — search planners, multi-hop / iterative retrieval, self-reflection and sufficiency checks, tool-using agents that decide what to fetch and verify what came back.
Strong grasp of relevance evaluation: nDCG, MRR, Precision@K, Recall@K; offline/online experimentation; LLM-as-judge frameworks; building human labeling pipelines.
Experience working across structured and unstructured data — you've indexed and ranked over tables, code, and documents in the same system, and have opinions about how to do it well.
Track record of building 0→1: you've stood up a retrieval system from an empty repo, made the foundational architectural decisions, and grown it into something that customers depend on.
Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader: setting direction across teams, mentoring senior engineers, and influencing roadmap with research, product, and platform partners.

Nice to Have

Experience building retrieval over enterprise SaaS sources (permissions, freshness, multi-tenancy, ACL-aware indexing).
Background in agentic systems, tool use, or multi-turn retrieval for LLM agents.
Contributions to open-source IR/search projects, or publications at SIGIR, KDD, WWW, EMNLP, or similar venues.
Experience training or fine-tuning embedding models, rerankers, or query understanding models.

Why This Role

Foundational impact. Retrieval is the single biggest lever on agent quality. The stack you build will sit underneath every Databricks agent and every customer-built agent on our platform.
Greenfield with scale. You get the rare combination of starting from a clean sheet and having immediate access to massive enterprise scale, real customer data, and a world-class research org.
The right team. You'll work alongside engineers and researchers behind Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, MosaicML, and DBRX.

Location

This role is based in our Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA office. Hybrid in-office collaboration expected.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range

$228,600—$342,800 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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