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.
169 AI roles tagged rag.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block | Principal Engineer, AI Systems | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Fine-tuning · LLM observability · Agent research |
| SoFi | Staff AI Engineer | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability |
| Visa | Senior AI Engineer | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Frontier research · Interpretability · RL post-training · Agent research · Multimodal |
| Upstart | Principal Engineer, LLM | Fintech | 9 | Inference infra · Model serving · Vector DB · Evals · LLM observability |
| Ramp | Agentic Operator, Growth Marketing | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Gusto | Sr. Staff AI/ML Engineer | Fintech | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| PitchBook | Manager, Engineering, AI & ML | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Vector DB · Model serving |
| Plaid | Engineering Manager, AI Applications | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Vector DB · Evals · LLM observability · RLHF · Agent research |
| Mastercard | Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Platform Agentic AI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Mastercard | Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Visa | Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) — Senior AI Engineer, Tech Practice | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Stripe | Engineering Manager, AI Conversation Platform | Fintech | 8 | Fine-tuning · Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| PitchBook | Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Gusto | Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| PayPal | Lead Product Manager | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Block | Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling), Support | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Ripple | Senior Staff Security Engineer, AI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · LLM observability · Agent research |
| Visa | Manager, Intelligence & Data Solutions (IDS), Data Science | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Visa | Software Engineer, Sr. Consultant Level (11-15 years exp, Java-Python-AWS-GenAI) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Ripple | Staff Software Engineer, GenAI Platform | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Visa | Senior Data Scientist, AI/ML– Visa Consulting and Analytics | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Vector DB |
| Visa | Staff Engineer GenAI Developer | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Visa | Senior Director, Software Engineering (GenAI/Cloud) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Visa | Staff Software Engineer - Python, AI/ML, Cloud, GenAI | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Vector DB · LLM observability |
| Visa | Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant level | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Visa | Senior Manager- (Agentic AI Development/Solution/Client facing) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Fine-tuning · LLM observability · Evals |
| Visa | Lead AI Engineer (Agentic AI) | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Visa | Lead AI Engineer (Business Intelligence) | Fintech | 8 | LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Visa | Client Consulting Analyst | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Evals |
| SoFi | Director, AI Platforms | Fintech | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Guardrails |
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).