Senior AI Engineer (Search/Information Retrieval)
Workato is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their Enterprise Retrieval team, focused on building a unified, permission-aware retrieval layer for AI agents. The role involves designing hybrid retrieval pipelines, managing large-scale ingestion, and implementing semantic search capabilities across diverse enterprise data sources. You will work with modern IR and LLM tooling to ensure low-latency, high-accuracy responses for enterprise-grade automation. The position requires strong backend experience, deep knowledge of search infrastructure, and a passion for engineering scalable AI systems.
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Experience
3-5 years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Workato is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join their Enterprise Retrieval team, focused on building a unified, permission-aware retrieval layer for AI agents. The role involves designing hybrid retrieval pipelines, managing large-scale ingestion, and implementing semantic search capabilities across diverse enterprise data sources. You will work with modern IR and LLM tooling to ensure low-latency, high-accuracy responses for enterprise-grade automation. The position requires strong backend experience, deep knowledge of search infrastructure, and a passion for engineering scalable AI systems.
TAL's take
High-impact role at a well-regarded scale-up company working on complex enterprise retrieval and AI agent problems.
The JD provides a highly specific description of the retrieval architecture, the technical stack, and the team's problem space.
Salaries at Workato
20.0 LPA average
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Must haves
- 3-5 years experience building production search, retrieval, or recommendation systems
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Java
- Hands-on experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or Vespa
- Experience with vector search and embeddings
- Experience designing RAG pipelines in production
- Solid understanding of IR fundamentals and ACL-aware retrieval
Tools and skills
Nice to have: kafka, flink, spark, sentence-transformers, bge, e5, langchain, llamaindex, haystack.
About the company
Recognized leader in iPaaS and cloud-native integration with significant growth and enterprise market presence.
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