Senior RAG Engineer
Newcode.ai | Built In
San Francisco, CARemote OKFull-time
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Senior RAG Engineer - Newcode.ai | Built In
Senior RAG Engineer
Newcode.ai
Senior RAG Engineer
Posted 10 Days Ago
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6 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Natural Language Processing • Software
The Role
Own and operate the end-to-end retrieval pipeline: parsing/chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, semantic+keyword search, reranking, and agentic retrieval loops. Build evaluation (golden sets, metrics, regression tests), ship robust Python/FastAPI services, ensure tenant isolation and data security, and make multilingual retrieval reliable under production load.
About Newcode.ai
Newcode.ai is a fast-growing legal tech and agentic AI company transforming how legal work is done. With teams across Norway, Sweden, Ireland, the US and growing we work at the intersection of law, technology, and intelligence. We move fast, think big, and take pride in doing things the right way.
Note: We believe in being transparent about what it's like to work at Newcode. As a fast-growing startup, we're building and evolving every day. That means not every process, playbook, or framework is already in place, and priorities can shift quickly.
The people who thrive here are comfortable with ambiguity, take ownership, and don't wait for perfect direction. They are resourceful, proactive, and able to "figure it out"—solving problems, creating structure where needed, and helping build the company as they go. If you are good with this then, great! Keep reading to learn more.
The role
You'll own retrieval. When someone asks our product a question, something has to find the right passage across large sets of confidential documents, decide it really is the right passage, and hand it to a language model whose answer ends up in real professional advice. That whole path is yours: how documents get parsed, chunked and embedded, how search combines meaning with exact terms, how results get reranked, and how an agent