Sr. AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

Sr. AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

Full-Time On-site
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Location: London, UK Annual Remuneration: Β£105,000 - Β£120,000 and discretionary annual bonus Pay Frequency: Monthly Probationary Period: 180 days Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3-days per week
TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems based in London.
  • Own and advance content discovery in Corestream, improving how customers find, explore, and engage with relevant risk intelligence, while helping shape the technical direction of discovery capabilities across Kharon's products.
  • Redesigning and improving Kharon's hybrid search capabilities, opening new avenues for content discovery β€” drawing on modern approaches including BM25 tuning, semantic distance, RAG, reranking, and graph-based signals that go beyond traditional semantic similarity.
  • Explore and build new discovery experiences, including agentic search, intelligent content categorization, personalized feeds, and systems that surface relevant connections across large collections of intelligence.
  • Driving the evolution of Kharon's narrative generation pipeline β€” how we take graph and analytical data and transform it into compelling, accurate written intelligence for customers.
  • Own problems end to end, from identifying opportunities and evaluating approaches to prototyping, implementing, deploying, and continuously improving production systems.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and Engineering, influencing priorities and architectural decisions while maintaining a strong hands-on contribution.


  • A proven interest or experience in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains
  • 3+ years of experience in Data Science, AI Engineering, ML Engineering, or related software engineering roles
  • Hands-on experience in information retrieval, including experience with some combination of lexical search, embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, ranking, reranking, and retrieval evaluation
  • Practical experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows.
  • Strong Python skills and the software engineering ability to take an idea from prototype to a reliable, maintainable production implementation
  • Demonstrated initiative and technical ownership β€” a track record of tackling ambiguous problems independently, challenging assumptions, and driving solutions forward while working with stakeholders
  • Curiosity and a willingness to experiment with emerging approaches while maintaining a pragmatic focus on what actually works
  • Bonus: Experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge graph outputs into retrieval systems


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Sr. AI Engineer, Retrieval & Agentic Systems employer: Aimlroles

Monzo is an exceptional employer that prioritises innovation and employee growth, offering a dynamic work culture where collaboration thrives. With flexible working hours, a generous learning budget, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, employees are empowered to make a meaningful impact in transforming customer operations through cutting-edge machine learning solutions. Join us in our mission to revolutionise banking while enjoying the benefits of remote work and a supportive environment.

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