RAG jobs in California

Lead AI Engineer, Agentic and RAG Systems

Remote

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Today

We are looking for a seasoned Lead AI Engineer who architects, builds, and operates production GenAI platforms - agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and LLM-backed services with real users and real SLAs - while leading engineers and setting the technical direction across multiple workstreams. This is an engineering leadership role, not a research role. The bar is reliability, latency, cost, observability, and safe deployment at scale, with end-to-end ownership from architecture through on-call, an

Full-time

Hiring! AI Specialist (Azure AI Search / RAG / GraphRAG) - Remote

Remote or Texas

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Today

Location: Pleasanton, CA (Remote) Duration: Long-Term Start Date: September 15, 2026 Employment Type: Long Term Contract Rate: TBD Exclusive: HCLTech Exclusive Job Summary We are seeking an experienced AI Specialist with 5 7 years of hands-on experience in building and optimizing AI-powered applications on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Node.js, and Cosmos DB/SQL, along with practical experien

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Full-time, Contract

Enterprise Data Architect

Remote

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4d ago

1015+ years Enterprise Data Architect who has spent the last few years working on Azure/Microsoft Fabric + Dynamics 365 + Purview + Power Platform, and has recently helped organizations prepare data for Copilot, RAG, enterprise search or GenAI.

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80 - 85

Senior AI Engineer, Agentic and RAG Systems

Remote

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Today

We are seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer who designs, builds, and operates production GenAI systems - agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and LLM-backed services with real users and real SLAs. This is an engineering role, not a research role. The bar is reliability, latency, cost, observability, and safe deployment at scale, with end-to-end ownership from architecture through on-call. Typical workloads include enterprise knowledge platforms, conversational analytics, agentic automation, and LL

Full-time

AI Agents Engineer (LLM/ OpenAI/ RAG)

Remote

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4d ago

Job Title: AI Agent EngineerLocation: Remote, US Mode: Contract Required Qualifications Strong experience building and deploying AI/ML or LLM-powered applications in production environments.Advanced proficiency in Python and experience developing scalable software systems.Hands-on experience designing and implementing AI agents and agentic workflows.Experience working with LLM APIs, AI APIs, and tool/function calling.Experience with OpenAI technologies, ChatGPT, or comparable LLM platforms.Unde

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40 - 45

Software Engineer, Search and RAG Applications

Santa Clara, California

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Today

At Apple, individual imaginations come together to build innovative products, services, and experiences that enrich lives worldwide. By encouraging a culture of collaboration and diversity, we strengthen each other's ideas, unlocking innovation that runs through everything we do. The AI, Search & Knowledge Platforms team is looking for a Software Engineer to help develop a best-in-class service for real-time search to power the capabilities of Siri and other Apple search products. These services

Full-time

Snowflake Data Engineer

Remote

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6d ago

Role: Snowflake Data Enginneer - Remote Key Responsibilities Build and optimize Snowflake data pipelines and warehouses Develop advanced SQL and data models for analytics and operational workloads Design and manage Graph Databases (Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, etc.) Build GraphQL APIs and federated schemas Develop streaming, CDC, and batch ingestion pipelines Implement data quality, lineage, monitoring, and observability Partner with software engineering and DevOps teams on data architecture Requ

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Depends on Experience

Forward Deployed Engineer

Palo Alto, California

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3d ago

Role Title: Forward Deployed Engineer Location: Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid 3 days) Employment Type: 6 Months contract to hire About the Role: We are looking for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)senior, product-minded builders who operate like project founders rather than ticket-takers. You wont be handed a refined sprint backlog or a queue of Jira tickets. Instead, youll be handed an open-ended goal, embedded directly with product and business teams, and given the autonomy to take a project fro

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Depends on Experience

Senior AI Engineer- Fulltime Role

Remote

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6d ago

Senior AI Engineer Experience: 10+ years overall; 4+ years relevant AI/engineering experience Location: Remote Key Responsibilities Build LLM, Copilot, RAG, and Agent-based systems Own AI features end-to-end: prototype evaluate deploy improve Develop prompt pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and RAG Design agentic workflows with tools, APIs, planning, memory, and state Optimize quality, latency, scalability, and cost Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and monitoring Implement AI safe

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Depends on Experience

AI Software Engineer

San Diego, California

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9d ago

Client: Autonomous Vehicle/Tech Title: AI Software Engineer Job Location: San Diego, CA Duration: ~6 Months Pay Rate: $97.24/HR (W2 ONLY, NO C2C OR 3RD PARTIES) (The Pay rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.) Software Engineer Onsite in San Diego, CA | 5 days in office Core Responsibilities Design and develop AI agents and autonomous systems capable of complex task execution and decision-makingBuild conversational AI solutions including chatbot

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AI Architect

Remote

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5d ago

Job Title: AI Architect Location: Remote Duration: 12+Months Start Date: ASAP. Job Description: Must Have Technical/Functional Skills: Proven experience as an AI Architect defining enterprise AI architecture, standards, and governance. Hands-on experience designing/building agent-based approaches and autonomous workflows. Strong expertise in Prompt Engineering (Zero/Few-shot, Chain-of-Thought) and prompt design. Strong Python development experience and ability to guide teams with reference

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Depends on Experience

AI - Sr Application Engineer - Bay area, CA - Fulltime

San Francisco, California

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11d ago

Job Title:AI Sr. Application Engineer Location: Bay area, CA Duration: Fulltime Number of Roles: 5 Job Description: Will work on theintelligence layer formultipleprograms owns all model quality, RAG accuracy, prompt engineering, and AI safety acrossapplicationsSocratic tutor persona, adaptive learning recommendation engine, multi-modal AI (text and voice), RAG evaluation framework, and feedback loop into retrieval6-LLM call chain orchestration (NeMoGuardrails intent classification query

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Full-time

Depends on Experience

Data Scientist

Santa Clara, California

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2d ago

Title: Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist Focus area: GenAI, Agentic & Computer Vision Solutions Location: On-site (Santa Clara) About the Role We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer / Data Scientist: an AI-engineering-heavy practitioner who combines deep algorithmic and deep learning expertise with strong solutioning and customer-facing skills. This is a hybrid role: part senior AI engineer, part technical lead, and part trusted advisor to customers. You will design and build production AI sys

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Third Party, Contract

$70 - $80

Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer

Remote

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2d ago

JOB DETAILS: Job Title: Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer Location: 100% Remote Contract Duration: 06 plus months contract with extensions (long -term contract) Job Description: Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Design, build, and deploy end-to-end data integration pipelines using Palantir Foundry, including complex transforms, incremental pipelines, and multi-source data connectorsArchitect and maintain the Ontology layer defining object types, link types, action typ

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$90 - $114

Enterprise AI Architect / AI Platform Architect

San Diego, California

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Today

Title: Enterprise AI Architect / AI Platform Architect Experience: 15+ years preferred Location: San Diego, CA Role Overview We are seeking a senior Enterprise AI Architect / AI Platform Architect to lead the design of enterprise AI platforms, AI-enabled SDLC frameworks, agentic AI solutions, and modernization strategies. This role requires a senior technology leader with experience across Enterprise AI Architecture, Agentic AI, GenAI platforms, product engineering, application moderniza

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Third Party, Contract

$DOE

Senior Python/ GenAI Engineer

Remote

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12d ago

About the Company Blackstraw.ai is an end-to-end technology services company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Engineering solutions across Data Science, Data Engineering, LLM/GenAI and LLMOps. Founded in 2018, we help global enterprises across North America, Europe and Asia to build and operationalize AI systems that create measurable business impact. Our mission is to make AI adoption simpler, faster and scalable through a blend of deep domain expertise, reusable accelerators an

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Full-time

Depends on Experience

AI Ops Engineer

Remote

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6d ago

Job Title: AI Ops Engineer IILocation: Denver, CO / RemoteW2 RoleRequired Skill Sets & Qualifications Technical Proficiencies: AI & LLM Development:Deep understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), advanced prompt engineering, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).AI Developer Tools: Hands-on experience or familiarity with advanced AI coding assistants and autonomous engineering platforms such as Devin and Windsurf.Agentic Frameworks:Hands-on expertise.

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Depends on Experience

Senior AI Project Manager

Remote

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9d ago

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior AI Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The initial assignment will support the Joint Longitudinal Viewer (JLV) AI Summarization initiative, delivering a production-ready AI-assisted search and summarization capability that enhances clinician access to Community Health Summary and Document (CHSD) data. Working closely with Government stakeholders, clinica

Full-time

140000 - 160000

Full Stack Agentic AI Developer/Lead

Fremont, California

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8d ago

Full Stack Agentic AI Developer Lead Fremont, CALocation: Fremont, CA | Job Type: Full-Time Required Qualifications10+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.Proven experience shipping AI-assisted and Agentic AI applications in high-throughput environments.Strong hands-on expertise with RAG, Agentic AI, LLMs, LangChain, and LangGraph.Strong React development experience for modern frontend applications.Strong backend programming experience with APIs, distributed systems

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Full-time

150,000 - 200,000

Data scientist (W2/1099 only, local to CA)

Remote

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3d ago

Need candidates on W2/1099 only, local to CA preferred REQUIREMENTS Strong hands-on Pythonand SQLskills for data science (pandas, scikit-learn, and similar). Should be strong in AWS suite, experience working with AWS Cloud or similar environments and tools for Data Science, AI and ML Ability to deploy ML models to production environment. Able to take ambiguous data and turn it into a clear business case, and present that case persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Solid gro

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Full-time

55 - 70

RAG jobs in California, USA