Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval is open at Databricks in Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California. The posting gives a salary of $229K - $343K. Posted on May 7, 2026, and still on Databricks’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
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…
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