Hire a RAG engineer whose retrieval you can actually cite.
Retrieval that your product can stand behind — grounded, cited, production-tuned.
Most RAG systems fail quietly: retrieval that's almost right, answers that sound confident but aren't grounded, no way to tell when it's wrong. Our RAG engineers specialize in the unglamorous tuning that makes retrieval trustworthy — chunking strategy, reranking, citation, and evaluation against a golden dataset before anything ships.
- Seniority
- 4+ years, 1+ years focused specifically on production RAG systems
- Background
- Ingestion pipelines, chunking/reranking strategy, vector search tuning, and citation/grounding design
What they'll actually do.
Not a job description — the work this person owns from their first sprint, inside your codebase and your process.
Work this bench has shipped.
Generative Catalog Intelligence for a Marketplace
A generative enrichment pipeline turning inconsistent seller listings into structured, search-optimized product data — descriptions, attributes, and categorization at catalog scale.
Haystack — AI Data Intelligence Platform
A data-driven intelligence platform: one AI search layer across documents, data lakes, and repositories, with real-time indexing, AI-driven correlation, and workflow automation — built to hold up under heavy data loads.
Beyond AIO — AI Business Management & Analytics Platform
An all-in-one AI-powered business platform: predictive analytics, competitor analysis, CRM, HRM, financial management, task management, and cross-channel marketing with real-time campaign optimization.
Disclosure — founder-owned venture
Tell us the role, the stack, and when you need them started.
Every figure has a name behind it.
No rounded-up vanity metrics — each number below is tied to a specific, named engagement this bench shipped.
From intro call to embedded.
Matched by engineers who've tuned retrieval for production, not just built a RAG demo once.
Intro call
Confirm the role, stack, and team fit in one call.
Match
We propose 1–2 engineers from the bench who fit the work, not a generic pool.
Trial week
A real first week of work before any longer commitment.
Embed
Full participation in your standups, sprints, and tooling.
If the fit isn't right, we replace them inside two weeks — no argument, no fee for the swap. You'd rather we caught it early, and so would we.
Asked on every first call.
RAG has failure modes of its own — retrieval that is almost right, chunking that splits the answer in half, reranking that buries it, citations that do not trace back — and a generalist LLM engineer may never have tuned any of them deeply. A RAG engineer is specifically that discipline: making retrieval trustworthy enough that the answers built on top of it can be cited.
Yes, and that is the default. A staff-augmentation RAG engineer works inside your codebase, your process and your standups, not in a separate vendor environment.
A RAG engineer typically starts within one to two weeks of the intro call. We match from an existing bench rather than opening a cold hiring pipeline, so the limiting factor is usually your onboarding and access paperwork rather than our recruiting.
Every RAG engineer placement carries a two-week replacement guarantee, with no argument and no fee for the swap. We would rather replace someone in week two than have you carry a bad fit for a quarter.
No. A RAG engineer is engaged day-rate or monthly, month-to-month after a four-week minimum. No tiers, no bundled products, no notice period designed to trap you.
You do, from the first commit. A RAG engineer works in your repositories under your version control, and all work product assigns to you — ingestion and retrieval code, chunking and reranking configuration, golden datasets and evaluation harnesses, and documentation. The IP assignment is signed before anyone is given repository access, not negotiated at handover.
One call. Then a name, not a pipeline.
- 30 minutes with a senior engineer, not a recruiter
- Free and no-obligation — bring the role and the stack
- You leave knowing who we'd match and how fast they can start
- We reply within one business day
Anthropic-certified engineering capacity for Claude-native products and agents.
Senior LLM application engineering, without the vendor lock-in.
Agent and workflow-automation engineering, embedded in your team.
Full-stack web and mobile engineering, AI-accelerated, senior-owned.
Fractional technical leadership for teams that need direction, not headcount.
Fractional AI leadership — roadmap, governance, and vendor decisions.
Deployment, monitoring, and cost control for production AI systems.
Pipelines, warehousing, and AI-ready data infrastructure.
Systematic prompt and context design, tested against real outcomes.
Product management for AI features and roadmaps, grounded in what's actually feasible.
Let's put AI to work in your business.
A 30-minute call. You bring the workflow or the roadmap — we'll tell you what's feasible, what it costs, and what we'd build first.