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/yr HybridFull Time
Eightfold.ai
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.
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS SQS, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Pinecone, pgvector, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Agentic Models, LLM, RAG, GenAI
Santa Clara, California, United States
$232k-$310k/yr HybridFull Time
Eightfold
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.
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
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AI Fund
AI Fund: Builds and invests in artificial intelligence startups.
Strong AI engineering with LLMs, agents, RAG; client-facing, collaborative; travel.
Claude Code, Codex, LLMs, AGENTS, RAG systems
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Distinguished Engineer
McLean or Richmond or New York City or San Jose or Cambridge or Plano or San Francisco
$245k-$335k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
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.
LLM, RAG, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN
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McLean or Cambridge or Richmond or Plano or San Francisco or San Jose or New York City
$245k-$335k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
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.
Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, RAG, BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN
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Distinguished Engineer
McLean or Richmond or New York City or San Jose or Cambridge or Plano or San Francisco
$245k-$335k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Capital One
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.
LLM, RAG, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, BGP, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN
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Forward Deployment Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Hippocratic AI
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
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AI Harness Engineer
Barcelona or Santa Clara
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Agilent Technologies
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.
LLM, RAG, MCP, A2A
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
San Francisco or Atherton or Palo Alto or Cupertino or Santa Clara
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Voltai
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.
Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, RAG
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Principal/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States
$226k-$311k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Uniphore
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.
OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, SQL, Python, Go, Java, Javascript, Vector databases, SLM, LLM, GPU
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Backend Engineer, AI Systems
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$177k-$195k/yr OnsiteFull Time
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
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Applied AI Engineer, Advertising Agents (New Grad)
Mountain View, California, United States
$135k-$155k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NewsBreak
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.
LLMs, RAG, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, API
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Staff Engineer, Agents
Santa Clara, California, United States
$160k-$200k/yr HybridFull Time
LeanData
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.
Python, TypeScript, Go, LangGraph, agent SDKs, LLM, RAG, Salesforce APIs, Bulk 2.0, Composite, Pub/Sub, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Promptfoo, Braintrust, Langfuse, Inngest, Temporal, Postgres, RLS
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Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems
Palo Alto, California, United States
$400k-$550k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Inflection AI
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.
Python, TypeScript, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, vLLM, vector databases, RAG, APIs
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Software Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$149k-$224k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Pure Storage
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.
Python, REST APIs, LLM, RAG, embeddings, vector database, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Datadog, Prometheus
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Senior Value Engineer - Public Sector
Redwood City, California, United States
$156k-$183k/yr HybridFull Time
Celonis
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.
Celonis, Process Intelligence (PI), Microsoft, OpenAI, Databricks, Python, LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, PyTorch, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, LlamaIndex
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Senior Staff AI Engineer
Santa Clara or Mountain View
$244k-$413k/yr OnsiteFull Time
XPeng
XPengNew York Stock Exchange: XPEV: Designs and manufactures smart electric vehicles and autonomous technology.
10+ YOEBS/MS/PhD in CS or related field; 10+ years software engineering; AI/ML with LLMs, RAG, embeddings; production-grade agentic AI systems.
Language models, Vector search, Retrieval augmented generation, Evaluation frameworks
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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.
$174k-$252k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Google
GoogleNASDAQ: GOOGL: Provides online search, advertising, cloud computing, and consumer electronics.
5+ YOE5 years software development; AI systems on cloud; production-grade AI solutions; customer engagement; data pipelines with vector DB/RAG
Python, LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK, RAG, Vector Databases, LLM Metrics, Vertex AI, MCP servers
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AI Engineer
Pleasanton or United States
$100k-$145k/yr RemoteFull Time
Cognizant
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
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Sr. Vehicle Modelling Engineer, Applied AI Systems
Irvine or Palo Alto
$135k-$186k/yr HybridFull Time
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
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.
Python, OpenModelica, Julia, Simulink, FMI, FMU, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LLM, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, RequiTest, DBC, ARXML