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Kharon

Global risk analytics platform for sanctions

Senior AI Engineer - Retrieval & Agentic Systems

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMadrid, Spain

About the Job

Requirements

  • A proven interest or experience in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains.
  • At least 3 years of experience in Data Science, AI Engineering, ML Engineering, or related software engineering roles.
  • Hands-on experience in information retrieval, including some combination of lexical search, embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, ranking, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
  • Practical experience building applications powered by large language models, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, or agentic workflows.
  • Strong Python skills and the software engineering ability to take an idea from prototype to a reliable, maintainable production implementation.
  • Demonstrated initiative and technical ownership, including tackling ambiguous problems independently, challenging assumptions, and driving solutions forward while working with stakeholders.
  • Curiosity and willingness to experiment with emerging approaches while maintaining a pragmatic focus on what works.

Responsibilities

  • Own and advance content discovery in Corestream, improving how customers find, explore, and engage with relevant risk intelligence, while helping shape the technical direction of discovery capabilities across Kharon's products.
  • Redesign and improve Kharon's hybrid search capabilities, drawing on approaches including BM25 tuning, semantic distance, retrieval-augmented generation, reranking, and graph-based signals beyond traditional semantic similarity.
  • Explore and build discovery experiences, including agentic search, intelligent content categorization, personalized feeds, and systems that surface relevant connections across large collections of intelligence.
  • Drive the evolution of Kharon's narrative generation pipeline, transforming graph and analytical data into compelling, accurate written intelligence for customers.
  • Own problems end to end, from identifying opportunities and evaluating approaches to prototyping, implementing, deploying, and continuously improving production systems.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Engineering, influencing priorities and architectural decisions while maintaining a strong hands-on contribution.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge graph outputs into retrieval systems.

About the Company

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Kharon

Global risk analytics platform for sanctions

Kharon provides global risk analytics focused on sanctions, compliance risks, and geopolitical security for financial institutions, multinationals, and government agencies. Its core offering is The Kharon Core, a proprietary analytics platform that aggregates data, research, and signals to assess illicit finance, export controls, supply chain risk, and investment risk, delivered through weekly insights, customized reports, and on-demand webinars. Kharon differentiates itself by combining a centralized data platform with specialized research methods to surface actionable signals across sanctions and risk areas, beyond traditional compliance tools. Its goal is to help organizations navigate complex security and regulatory challenges, reimagine risk management, and build sustainable, higher-performing supply chains aligned with responsible investment.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Founded
2016

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