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Sr Engineer - AI Platforms / Context Intelligence (API's, search, information retrieval, agentic workflows)
$98K–$176K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Education
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
About the job
Builds and operates reusable enterprise context, retrieval, and knowledge platform services that help AI applications and agents access and reason over trusted information.
What you'll do
- Design retrieval, search, RAG, memory, ingestion, indexing, and context orchestration capabilities for AI applications and agents.
- Operate scalable, secure platform services and Kubernetes-based systems; improve retrieval observability, performance, and reliability.
- Lead technical reviews and partner with engineering, product, architecture, and data teams to deliver and promote reusable platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on engineering and programming skills.
- Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production-grade applications, platform services, or distributed systems.
- Experience with information retrieval, search architecture, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, or related context and knowledge technologies.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, observability, testing, debugging, and operational monitoring.
Pay
$98,000.00 - $176,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, RAG, GraphRAG, embeddings, vector databases, CI/CD
AI focus
Builds context and knowledge infrastructure for AI applications and agents, including semantic and hybrid retrieval, RAG and grounding, agent memory, and context orchestration.
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