Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems
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Job Summary
Location: Madrid Spain
Annual Remuneration: 95000 - 115000 and discretionary annual bonus
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Probationary Period: 180 days
Work Arrangement: Hybrid 3-days per week
TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Madrid-based Senior AI Engineer Agentic Systems.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Build and deploy AI agents that can interpret prioritize and act on information related to geopolitical and financial signals. This includes:
- Develop and continuously improve the tools that connect agents to critical information sources including web access semantic and hybrid retrieval structured-data querying internal APIs and knowledge graphs.
- Design implement and evaluate agentic workflows and multi-agent systems that effectively balance exploration and exploitation accuracy and latency and autonomy and control.
- Define evaluation frameworks and metrics for retrieval quality agent performance factual accuracy and business relevance.
- Partner closely with Research Product and Engineering to rapidly prototype test and refine new capabilities through short feedback loops.
- Take solutions from prototype to production including API development CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments using core AWS services such as RDS EKS and S3.
- Own the full lifecycle of the systems and services you buildfrom architecture and implementation through deployment adoption monitoring maintenance and continuous improvement.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Interest in or experience with global security financial crime sanctions export controls or related domains.
- 5 years of professional experience in AI engineering data science software engineering data engineering or a closely related role.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Proven experience building and operating RAG pipelines and agentic systems in production.
- Hands-on expertise in search and retrieval including BM25 vector search hybrid retrieval reranking and retrieval evaluation.
- Experience designing APIs and deploying containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated track record of rapidly prototyping agentic workflows that solve real user or business problems with the production experience to make pragmatic decisions about what to harden scale or discard.
- Strong product judgment and ownership with the ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into prototypes define a technical roadmap and independently drive execution.
- Bonus: Experience with graph-aware retrieval graph databases or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into search and agentic systems.
You dont need to be strong in both tracks below were building a small team that covers the full range between them:*
Track A Research & Investigation Depth
- This is you if you have a track record of building autonomous systems that drive deep dive investigations into a topic orchestrating multi-agent workflows integrating diverse data sources and building self-correcting evaluation loops that arent afraid to test hypotheses and fail gracefully.
- Hands-on expertise in search and retrieval including BM25 vector search hybrid retrieval reranking and retrieval evaluation.
Track B Platform & Systems Self-Sufficiency
- This is you if youre comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end deploying a database designing a schema shipping an API without a dedicated platform or DevOps team.*
- Experience designing APIs and deploying containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
Bonus: Experience with graph-aware retrieval graph databases or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into search and agentic systems strength in both tracks above is also a plus.
ABOUT KHARON:
Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.
From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of todays leading global financial and multinational institutions Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.
When you look at any major global crisis event were providing intelligence thats at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way thats meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights we are looking for a Senior AI Engineer Agentic Systems to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.
Disclosures
Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin ethnicity gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation or identity neurodiversity appearances age protected veteran status or status as a qualified individual with disability.
If you require any adjustment to participate in the recruitment process please contact . You must have the right to work in Europe and Spain. Kharon is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
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See the whole picture with the world's premier global risk analytics platform: Kharon. The leading solution for sanctions compliance, trade controls, and more.
