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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Robert Half

6+ years of building and operating production software, with a record of leading complex technical work across teams.

• Strong hands-on Python, with experience in backend services, APIs, and large-scale data pipelines.

• Experience with production LLM applications that depend on retrieval: tool calling, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or context management.

• Strong foundations in permissions, multi-tenant data, and access control on what an agent can retrieve.

• Clear product and technical judgment. You can balance answer quality, latency, and cost, and explain the tradeoffs to engineering and product leaders. Nice to Have • Long-running agent workflows that search or read documents.

• A vector store at production scale. • Processing of large confidential documents and data tables. • Hybrid search, citations, and evaluation of retrieval quality.

• Virtual data rooms, M&A documents, or similar document-heavy work. • Tool interfaces that expose search to an agent.

Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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