AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

Location: Madrid Spain

Annual Remuneration: 85000 - 95000 and discretionary annual bonus

Pay Frequency: Monthly

Probationary Period: 180 days

Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3-days per week

TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time AI Engineer Retrieval & Agentic Systems based in Madrid.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Owning and evolving Corestream Kharons risk intelligence feed a dynamic platform that surfaces entity-level insights and topic-based risk narratives to customers
• Redesigning and improving Kharons semantic search capabilities opening new avenues for content discovery drawing on modern approaches including BM25 tuning semantic distance RAG and reranking
• Integrating Kharons 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 Kharons 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

ABOUT KHARON:

Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of todays leading global financial and multinational institutions Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event were providing intelligence thats at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way thats meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights we are looking for a AI Engineer Retrieval & Agentic Systems to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.

Disclosures

Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ethnicity gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation or identity neurodiversity appearances age protected veteran status or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority

Employment Type : Full-Time
Department / Functional Area: Engineering
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 85000 - 95000