Retrieval-Augmented Generation: grounding LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from a vector store or search index before generation, so answers cite real sources instead of hallucinating.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents and application.
As of today, 2,014 active AI roles across 196 companies in our index reference RAG. Hiring concentrates at the agents (85%) and application (4%) stages. Most common sectors: Enterprise, Big Tech, Banking. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (1105 → 874).
Retrieval-Augmented Generation: grounding LLM responses by retrieving relevant documents from a vector store or search index before generation, so answers cite real sources instead of hallucinating. Primary AI lifecycle stage: agents and application.
2,014 active AI roles across 196 companies in our index reference RAG as of today. New postings fell 21% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (1105 → 874).
The companies with the most active RAG listings are: Amazon (164 roles), JPMorgan Chase (144 roles), Google (77 roles), Adobe (73 roles), Capital One (69 roles).
RAG primarily belongs to the agents and application stages of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, RAG roles concentrate at: agents (85%), application (4%).
The sectors with the most active RAG hiring are: Enterprise, Big Tech, Banking.
146 AI roles tagged rag.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RLHF · Agent research |
| Airbnb | Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Support Engineering | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · RL post-training · Agent research |
| Uber | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Moonshot AI | Consumer | 9 | Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · LLM observability · Evals · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Uber | Staff ML Engineer, Generative AI | Consumer | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal · Audio & speech |
| Airbnb | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data & Eval | Consumer | 9 | Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Fine-tuning · Synthetic data |
| Instacart | Machine Learning Engineer, PhD Intern | Consumer | 9 | LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Agent research · Evals |
| Zillow | Principal Product Technologist | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability |
| DoorDash | Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure - Gen AI | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Roblox | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Behavior | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Chegg | Senior Software Engineer - Agentic AI Applications | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Spotify | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Content Intelligence | Consumer | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Evals |
| Oura | AI Fullstack Engineer, Health Intelligence | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Chegg | Machine Learning/ AI Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Recommender systems |
| Whatnot | AI Tooling Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Tool use |
| Instacart | Senior Engineering Manager, Search | Consumer | 8 | Search & ranking · Recommender systems · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Vector DB |
| Instacart | Senior Software Engineer I — Agentic Analytics | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability |
| Airbnb | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability |
| Oura | Senior AI Engineer – Health Intelligence | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal · Agent research |
| Instacart | Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Model serving · LLM observability · Audio & speech |
| Snap | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search Ranking | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Spotify | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Zeitgeist, Personalization | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Vector DB · LLM observability · Recommender systems |
| Zillow | Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Airbnb | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure | Consumer | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · Agent orchestration · LLM observability |
| Opendoor | Agentic Analytics Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Uber | Lead, Applied AI | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Evals · Guardrails · Tool use |
| Instacart | Senior Software Engineer II, AI Labs & Foundations | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Airbnb | Staff Product Manager, AI Personalization | Consumer | 8 | LLM observability · Recommender systems · Agent orchestration |
| Zillow | Applied Scientist, New Construction | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Senior Staff ML Engineer, Search & Recommendation | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Model serving · Inference infra · LLM observability · Fine-tuning | |
| Oura | Staff AI Scientist | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Search & ranking · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |