225 rag engineer jobs at 103 companies in Santa Cruz, CA
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Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Agentic Models, LLM, RAG, GenAI
Santa Clara, California, United States
$193k-$258k/yrHybridFull Time
Eightfold.ai: AI-native platform for talent management and workforce optimization.
5+ YOESenior ML engineer with expertise in AI agents, LLMs, distributed systems; 5-7+ years of experience; strong Python and ML frameworks; AWS; Docker/Kubernetes; RAG/GenAI experience.
Eightfold: Global AI-native talent intelligence platform provider.
6+ YOELead AI/ML engineer with 6+ years in ML, Gen AI, LLMs; strong Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch; AWS, Docker, Kubernetes; expert in agentic AI and distributed systems.
McLean or Richmond or New York City or San Jose or Cambridge or Plano or San Francisco
$245k-$335k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Provides credit card, banking, and auto loan services.
7+ YOEBachelor's degree; 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture; 5+ years shipping cloud platforms; 3+ years with LLM systems, RAG, embeddings, prompt tooling, and model governance.
McLean or Cambridge or Richmond or Plano or San Francisco or San Jose or New York City
$245k-$335k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
7+ YOEBachelor's degree, 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture, 5+ years shipping cloud platforms, and 3+ years with LLM systems including RAG, embeddings, prompt tooling, and model governance.
McLean or Richmond or New York City or San Jose or Cambridge or Plano or San Francisco
$245k-$335k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Capital OneNYSE: COF: A diversified financial services providing banking and credit products.
7+ YOEBachelor's degree, 7+ years in software engineering and solution architecture, 5+ years shipping large-scale cloud platforms, and 3+ years with LLM systems including RAG, embeddings, prompt tooling, and model governance.
Hippocratic AI: Develops safety-focused generative AI for autonomous clinical healthcare conversations.
0+ YOEBachelor's in engineering/CS from a top university, 0–2+ years software engineering experience with production AI deployments, experience with LLMs/RAG, Python, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), EHR/FHIR/HL7 integrations, strong communication skills.
LLMs, RAG, Python, APIs, AWS, GCP, Azure, FHIR, HL7, EHR
Agilent TechnologiesNew York Stock Exchange: A: Providing instruments, software, and consumables for laboratory scientific discovery.
8+ YOEFull‑stack engineering experience building LLM applications, agents, RAG, evaluation, observability, and production deployment; familiarity with MCP/A2A patterns; ability to operate under regulated constraints; typically 8+ years experience.
San Francisco or Atherton or Palo Alto or Cupertino or Santa Clara
OnsiteFull Time
Voltai: Building AI world models and agents for semiconductor design.
5+ YOERequires 5+ years backend/full-stack/infrastructure engineering, experience with Docker and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), strong systems design and debugging, familiarity with agent development and RAG, and willingness to travel locally.
Uniphore: Develops an AI cloud platform for enterprise customer engagement.
10+ YOE10+ years experience in enterprise/B2B/AI consulting, mastery of enterprise AI architecture (RAG, multi-agent, LLM/SLM), stakeholder management, and full‑stack/data engineering skills; BS/MS/PhD in related field preferred.
GFiber: An Alphabet providing fiber and webpass internet services to homes and businesses.
5+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent experience, 5+ years software development, Python, GCP, microservices, REST APIs, production support, and practical experience with LLMs/AI agents and RAG/MCP pipelines.
Python, RAG, Model Context Protocol (MCP), RESTful APIs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Google Cloud Observability (Stackdriver), OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AntiGravity, Claude, Cursor, Java, Kotlin
Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents (New Grad)
Mountain View, California, United States
$135k-$155k/yrOnsiteFull Time
NewsBreak: Local news aggregation platform powered by artificial intelligence.
Recent BS/MS in CS/AI/Data Science or related; no professional experience required; familiarity with LLMs, RAG, agent orchestration, REST/API, and software engineering fundamentals; Docker/Kubernetes exposure a plus.
LeanData: Automates lead-to-account matching and routing for B2B revenue teams.
4+ YOE4+ years building production systems (2+ years shipping LLM/agent systems), strong Python (TypeScript/Go a plus), experience with agent frameworks, RAG/memory, distributed-systems fundamentals, and shipping customer-facing LLM products.
Inflection AI: Develops human-centered personal AI and large language models.
10+ YOE10+ years engineering experience (3+ years at staff/principal scope), 2+ years building production LLM/agent systems, strong Python or TypeScript, backend fundamentals, retrieval/RAG and tool-calling experience, bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Pure StorageNYSE: PSTG: Provides all-flash enterprise data storage and management solutions.
3+ YOE3+ years software engineering building backend or distributed systems, strong Python and REST API skills, experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, AWS deployments, security and observability.
Celonis: Provides process mining and operational intelligence software solutions.
5+ YOE5+ years leading technical pre- and post-sales engagements in state and local government; expertise in generative AI, RAG, Python, ML libraries, data engineering, presentations, and government processes.
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Generative AI, Google Cloud
San Francisco or Atlanta or Boulder or Cambridge or Chicago or Addison or Detroit or Irvine or Kirkland or Los Angeles or Miami or Mountain View or New York or Portland or Reston or San Diego or Seattle or Sunnyvale or Washington D.C.
CognizantNasdaq: CTSH: Provides IT consulting and digital business process services.
Bachelor's degree and strong experience designing AI solutions with RAG, vector databases, semantic search, LLMs, document intelligence, scalable AI systems, and cloud-based machine learning.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), vector databases, Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, HIPAA, ICD
Sr. Vehicle Modelling Engineer, Applied AI Systems
Irvine or Palo Alto
$135k-$186k/yrHybridFull Time
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies: A joint venture developing software-defined vehicle technology and AI-enabled systems for electric vehicles.
BS/MS in engineering or equivalent; strong Python; experience building LLM applications, RAG/semantic search, and AI tooling; systems engineering and physical simulation familiarity; GitLab CI/CD experience.