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You will be leading the design and development of search and retrieval agent systems that enable users to generate compete insights for their business. In this role, you will own projects end-to-end, guiding architecture decisions, experimentation strategy, and production readiness for LLM-powered retrieval and generation workflows.\nYou will shape how we integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), dense retrieval, query understanding, and agentic reasoning loops to deliver fast, accurate, and trusted search experiences at scale.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and ship backend systems that power agentic workflows. You design retrieval pipelines, orchestration layers, and multi-step agent architectures that turn millions of competitive data points (news, press releases, webpage changes, Slack posts, emails, reviews, CRM data) into actionable intelligence for our customers.\n\nOwn evaluation of agentic systems at scale. You develop and operate evaluation frameworks (automated, offline, and human-in-the-loop) that measure relevance, quality, latency, and end-to-end task success across our agent pipelines. You'll define what \"good\" looks like and build the infrastructure to measure it continuously.\n\nDesign and optimize retrieval and ranking systems. You work across hybrid retrieval, re-ranking, query rewriting, and post-retrieval synthesis to ensure our agents surface the right information at the right time. You understand the tradeoffs between BM25, dense retrieval, and hybrid approaches and know when each matters.\n\nImprove LLM-powered workflows end to end. From prompt design and retrieval strategy to caching and latency optimization, you'll make our agent responses faster, more accurate, and more reliable in production.\n\nShip with the customer in mind. You connect technical decisions to customer outcomes. You're energized by understanding how customers use the product, and you use that context to prioritize what to build next. You ship iteratively, measure impact, and course-correct quickly.\n\nCollaborate across product, infrastructure, and data teams - align technical direction with product goals, contribute to architecture decisions, and help the team move faster by establishing patterns and best practices for production-grade agentic systems.\n\nStay on the frontier. Evaluate and integrate advances in LLMs, retrieval architectures, and agentic reasoning. You have strong opinions (loosely held) about where this space is heading and bring that perspective to your work.\n\nWhat You Bring\nExperience building and operating backend systems in production, with meaningful experience in at least one of: search/retrieval, data pipelines, distributed systems, or API-heavy service architectures.\n\nHands-on experience with search, retrieval, or ranking systems. You've built or significantly improved retrieval pipelines and understand information retrieval fundamentals (hybrid retrieval, relevance tuning, query understanding).\n\nExperience building or evaluating agentic / LLM-powered systems. You've worked with retrieval-augmented generation, multi-step agent workflows, or similar architectures and have thought critically about how to evaluate their output quality at scale.\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals. You write clean, maintainable, well-tested code. You're comfortable with Python and have experience with backend frameworks, APIs, and production infrastructure. You care about reliability, observability, and CI/CD.\n\nFamiliarity with vector databases and search infrastructure. You've worked with tools like FAISS, PGVector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch and understand their operational tradeoffs.\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and building systems that handle scale, large data volumes, low-latency requirements, and high availability.\n\nYou use AI coding tools to accelerate your own work. You've integrated tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar into your development workflow and can speak to how they've changed the way you build software.\n\nCustomer-oriented mindset. You've shipped features where you understood the end-user problem, not just the technical specification. You're motivated by customer impact, not just technical elegance.\n\nAbility to lead projects and provide technical direction. You can own a problem end to end, make sound architectural decisions, and help others on the team level up.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience designing multi-agent systems or complex orchestration workflows.\n\nBackground in conversational search or dialogue systems.\n\nContributions to open-source projects in search, retrieval, or the LLM ecosystem.\n\nInterest in sharing learnings externally (blog posts, talks, open-source contributions).\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nWe're looking for builders who:\nTake ownership and run with ambiguous problems\n\nJump into new areas and rapidly learn what's needed to deliver solutions\n\nBring scientific rigor while maintaining a pragmatic delivery focus\n\nSee unclear requirements as an opportunity to shape the solution\n\nOur Tech Stack\nLLM platforms: OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models\n\nML frameworks: PyTorch, Transformers, spaCy\n\nSearch/Vector DBs: Elasticsearch, Pinecone, PostgreSQL\n\nMLOps tools: Weights & Biases, MLflow, Langfuse\n\nInfrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP\n\nDevelopment: Python, Git, CI/CD\n\nWe encourage candidates to apply to the engineering role and level that best align with their experience. To support a fair and consistent review process, candidates are limited to one engineering application every 60 days. Applying to multiple roles will not improve consideration, as our team evaluates candidates holistically across our engineering career framework throughout the interview process.\n⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇\nNot ticking every box? That’s okay. We take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from what we’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application.\nAt Klue, we're committed to building a high-performing team where people feel a strong sense of belonging, can be their authentic selves, and are able to reach their full potential. If there’s anything we can do to make our hiring process more accessible or to better support you, please let us know, we’re happy to accommodate.\nWhy Klue Might Be the Perfect Fit For You\nAt Klue, you’ll push the boundaries of what’s possible. For yourself, your team, and our customers. The environment here feels more startup than corporate. You’ll roll up your sleeves, build, iterate, and level up. This is a place where your ideas matter, you can shape what comes next, and leave your mark.\nIf you’re looking to join a category-defining company… where you own big outcomes, influence real customers, and work with smart, gritty people… you’ll thrive here.\nUnlock Your Potential. Take Risks. Take Action. Innovate\nHow We Work at Klue\nWe love the balance of connection and flexibility. We work Office-First, with a hybrid touch, and work together in our vibrant offices on Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays to collaborate, brainstorm, and build together.\nOur main hiring hubs are in:\nVancouver (HQ)\n\nToronto\n\nLondon\n\nOur Commitment to You\nHigh Performance Culture. We reward high performance and growth through career development, coaching, and annual performance reviews.\n\nComprehensive benefits: Extended health & dental coverage that starts on Day 1. Fun perks like discounts at Goodlife and Perkopolis are gravy.\n\nOwnership: All full-time employees have the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Option Plan.\n\nOur Vacation Policy is Take The Time You Need. We just ask that you give notice and don’t leave your team hanging.\n\nTop-tier tools. All employees will receive a Mac (or PC, if that’s your jam) and access to A+ tooling.\n\nAI First. All employees are encouraged to lean into AI to work smarter and faster. Built something cool lately? Show us at our Friday Show, Don’t Tell Meetings.\n\nGrowth / Leadership. Direct access to our leadership team, including our CEO, and opportunities to connect with incredible people across the company.\n\nSocial connection. There’s no shortage of ways to stay connected and have fun. We get together once a year in Vancouver for a company- wide kickoff. Throughout the year our Hubs hold regular social events.\n\nDog-friendly spaces. Bring your four-legged friend along in Vancouver or Toronto, as our offices are pup-approved.\n\nAbout Klue\nWe’re on a mission to help organizations stop losing winnable deals. Klue’s AI agents generate market, competitor, and buyer insights in a unified platform. We ensure it’s trustworthy, automated, and activated across every department, so they have the answers they need to own their market.\nHere’s what makes us tick:\nKlue is AI-first at its core. It’s wired deep into our internal processes and tooling, powering our small but mighty team. It drives Klue’s autonomous agents that handle the heavy lifting for customers: collecting intel, generating insights, and ensuring content is updated and available across departments. Our agents help them scale their impact, stay ahead of the market, and reclaim the time that used to be consumed by manual, repetitive busywork.\n\nCompetitor Insights. Klue helps revenue teams win more competitive deals by turning market, competitor, and buyer signals into insights teams can actually use. Our AI analyzes calls, CRM data, and real buyer feedback to give product marketers and sellers a clear picture of what’s happening in their market and why deals are won or lost. We’re a curious, collaborative team building a platform that helps companies compete with confidence, and we’re looking for people who want to do meaningful work alongside others who care about craft and impact.\n\nA culture of curiosity, ownership and winning together. We’re a fast-growing, globally-distributed team based in Vancouver (with hubs like Toronto), scaling quicker than ever. We value people who own their domain, act boldly, stay curious and thrive in a collaborative, high-performance environment.\n\nExplore More\nKlue Blog\n\nIgnition Acquisition (2025)\n\nGoldpan.ai Acquisition (2025)\n\nWin-Loss Acquisition (2023)\n\nSeries A (2020)\n\nSeries B (2021)\n\nCulture, culture, culture!\n\nCustomer Stories\n\nGlassdoor\n\nAbout Us\n\nInstagram\n\nLinkedIn\n\nWellfound (AngelList)\n\nProduct Demo Arena\n\nBy submitting your application, you agree that Klue may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. We may use automated or AI-assisted tools to support our recruitment process. 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