# Applied AI Research Engineer at Starburst

- Company: Starburst
- What the company does: Backed by Index and a16z.
- Company website: http://starburstdata.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/starburst/jobs/5416956008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/starburst-applied-ai-research-engineer/

## About the role

You will own the intelligence layer that makes AIDA's agents correct, trustworthy, and measurably better over time. The work spans information retrieval, knowledge representation, and evaluation science. You will turn ambiguous notions of "agent quality" into clear metrics, build the grounding systems that connect agent reasoning to verified data, and create the evaluation infrastructure that makes quality a first-class engineering discipline.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with enterprise data systems (SQL engines, data catalogs, schema metadata)
- Familiarity with text-to-SQL or structured query generation
- Published research or open-source contributions in IR, NLP, or evaluation methodology
- Experience designing evaluation pipelines that run in CI/CD
- Familiarity with JVM-based systems

Tags: Engineering