Kapa makes technical knowledge instantly accessible through AI assistants. As a research engineer, you will work on improving Kapa’s ability to answer harder and harder technical questions. Check out Docker’s documentation for a live example of what Kapa is (look for the “Ask AI” button).
The Following Challenges Should Excite You
Evaluating a RAG system in production without labelled data.
Creating your own benchmark from scratch.
Building an agentic retrieval system that can judge when to be fast and when to take more time.
Fine tuning embeddings or rerank models.
To Solve These Challenges You Will
Work directly with the founding team and our software engineers.
Keep up with the latest developments in the space and see how they can be applied.
Design and run experiments.
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
A Master's/ Ph D degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field.
A detailed understanding of machine learning, deep learning (including LLMs) and natural language processing.
Hands-on experience in training, fine-tuning and deploying large language models.
Have prior experience working with vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases.
Significant experience building evaluation systems for LLMs or search.
Familiarity with various information retrieval techniques, such as lexical search and dense vector search.
The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment where things are sometimes loosely defined.
Want to learn more about machine learning research.
This is neither an exhaustive nor necessary set of attributes. Even if none of these apply to you, but you believe you will contribute to kapa.ai, please reach out.
Job Details
Base pay range: $100,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industry: Software Development
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