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.
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).
18 AI roles tagged rag.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualtrics | Staff Data Scientist: Semantic Substrate Incubation | Seattle | 9 | Agent orchestration · Agent research · LLM observability · Model serving · Vector DB |
| Smartsheet | Sr Principal Data Scientist | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Senior Software Engineer II - Applied AI (Remote Eligible) | Seattle | 8 | Evals · LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Model serving |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible in the UK) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible in Germany) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Senior Manager, Engineering - AI & Automation | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Smartsheet | Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Remote Eligible) | Seattle | 8 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals |
| Qualtrics | Senior Software Engineer - Experience Agents | Seattle | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Smartsheet | Senior Software Engineer I (Automation) | Seattle | 7 | Agent orchestration · Vector DB |
| Redfin | Senior Software Engineer - Conversational Search | Seattle | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Redfin | Software Developer II - Conversational Search | Seattle | 7 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Model serving |
| Smartsheet | Senior Product Manager - Applied AI (Remote Eligible) | Seattle | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Smartsheet | Senior Software Engineer II - Applied AI and Evaluations (Remote Eligible) | Seattle | 7 | Evals · LLM observability · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning |
| Smartsheet | Senior AI/ML Ops Engineer (Hybrid in Bangalore) | Seattle | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra · Vector DB · Fine-tuning |
| Smartsheet | Senior AI/ML Ops Engineer-II (Hybrid in Bangalore) | Seattle | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Principal Data Engineer / Architect - Individual Contributor | Seattle | 7 | Vector DB |
| Smartsheet | Sr. Business Intelligence Engineer, Enterprise Intelligence (Hybrid, Bangalore) | Seattle | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability |
| Smartsheet | Senior AI & Data Governance Engineer-II (Hybrid in Bangalore ) | Seattle | 5 | Guardrails · Evals · LLM observability |