# Research Engineer, Applied AI at kapa.ai

- Company: kapa.ai (YC S23)
- What the company does: The fastest way to build AI assistants on technical content. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.kapa.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: GB / DE / FR / NO / DK / SE / FI / PT / ES / BE / NL / IT / CH / AT / CZ / PL / EE / LV / LT / SK / HU / SI / HR / RU /...
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-05-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kapa-ai/jobs/huRVu7n-research-engineer-applied-ai
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/kapa-ai-research-engineer-applied-ai/

## About the role

Kapa makes technical knowledge instantly accessible through AI assistants. As a research engineer you will work on improving Kapa’s ability to answer harder and harder technical questions. Check out Docker’s documentation ( https://docs.docker.com ) for a live example of what Kapa is (look for the “Ask AI” button). * This is neither an exhaustive nor necessary set of attributes. Even if none of these apply to you, but you believe you will contribute to kapa.ai, please reach out.

## What they're looking for

- A Master's/ PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field
- A detailed understanding of machine learning, deep learning (including LLMs) and natural language processing
- Hands-on experience in training, fine-tuning and deploying large language models
- Have prior experience working with vector databases, search indices, or other data stores for search and retrieval use cases
- Significant experience building evaluation systems for LLMs or search
- Familiarity with various information retrieval techniques, such as lexical search and dense vector search

Tags: Engineering