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This includes:\nDevelop 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.\nDesign, implement, and evaluate agentic workflows and multi-agent systems that effectively balance exploration and exploitation, accuracy and latency, and autonomy and control.\nDefine evaluation frameworks and metrics for retrieval quality, agent performance, factual accuracy, and business relevance.\nPartner closely with Research, Product, and Engineering to rapidly prototype, test, and refine new capabilities through short feedback loops.\nTake 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.\nOwn the full lifecycle of the systems and services you build-from architecture and implementation through deployment, adoption, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\nInterest in or experience with global security, financial crime, sanctions, export controls, or related domains.\n5+ years of professional experience in AI engineering, data science, software engineering, data engineering, or a closely related role.\nStrong proficiency in Python and SQL.\nProven experience building and operating RAG pipelines and agentic systems in production.\nHands-on expertise in search and retrieval, including BM25, vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.\nExperience designing APIs and deploying containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.\nDemonstrated 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.\nStrong product judgment and ownership, with the ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into prototypes, define a technical roadmap, and independently drive execution.\nBonus: Experience with graph-aware retrieval, graph databases, or integrating knowledge-graph outputs into search and agentic systems.\nYou don't need to be strong in both tracks below - we're building a small team that covers the full range between them:*\nTrack A - Research & Investigation Depth\nThis 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 aren't afraid to test hypotheses and fail gracefully.\nHands-on expertise in search and retrieval, including BM25, vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.\nTrack B - Platform & Systems Self-Sufficiency\nThis is you if you're comfortable owning infrastructure end-to-end - deploying a database, designing a schema, shipping an API - without a dedicated platform or DevOps team.*\nExperience designing APIs and deploying containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.\nBonus: 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.\nABOUT KHARON:\nKharon 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.\n\nFrom 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 today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.\n\nWhen you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s 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 Data Scientist, Agentic Systems to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.\n\nDisclosures\nKharon 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.\n\nIf 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.\n\nBy applying for this position, you acknowledge that Kharon will process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Spanish data protection legislation. For information about how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data, please review our Candidate Privacy Notice at www.kharon.com/privacy. You have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to lodge a complaint with the Spanish data protection authority, the AEPD, atwww.aepd.es. To exercise your rights, contact us at .\n\nIf your application is unsuccessful, your data will be retained for up to 12 months before being securely deleted. 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