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Principal AI Engineer - Context - Agents and Context
Elastic
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Hybrid (inferred: EU/NL where applicable)
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years
Job description
Key details
- Own the production improvement loop for Context Engine, understanding how extraction automations, retrieval tools and memory behave based on offline evaluations, customer conversations and telemetry
- Define how the team iterates on agents and skills safely, including versioning and rollout of prompts, skills and automations, regression coverage, staged and shadow evaluation, and guardrails
- Design telemetry needed for data-informed engineering decisions, including what to capture from agent traces, tool calls and knowledge retrieval, how it lands in Elasticsearch, and how it feeds evaluation, dashboards and the feedback loop
- Partner with the data science team on evaluation strategy, including golden datasets and evaluators to gate on quality, latency and cost
- Raise the technical bar across the team by reviewing designs and PRs, mentoring engineers in eval-driven development, and writing technical proposals that shape the roadmap
- Company mission
- Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale, unleashing the potential of businesses and people
Primary stack
Core technologies
TypeScript
Benefits
- Information not specified
Requirements & details
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with recent years spent shipping and operating AI-driven products on real production traffic
- Direct experience building agents with state
- Hybrid role at the intersection of engineering, data science, and product
- Codebase is TypeScript and built in the open
- TypeScript, LangChain, OpenAI, LLMs, AI Agents
- TypeScript
