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Private information and trust · H40

Personal Knowledge and Retrieval Engineer

You help a person find and use their own information without losing its source, its meaning, or its privacy. The measure is whether the answer is useful and correctly attributed, which is a different and harder target than embedding similarity.

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Open for applications. Starts at: First team.

We are taking applications for this role now and building the pipeline for it. The stage above is when the work itself is expected to begin, which is something you deserve to know before you apply rather than after. It is context, not a gate.

Where

Kirkland GarageUAE Garage

In the office together five days a week, in one of our garages, and remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time. We hire across the United States 🇺🇸, India 🇮🇳 and the UAE 🇦🇪.

The work

What this person actually does

Build ingestion, parsing, retrieval, structured memory and provenance across documents and selected services. Preserve permissions at retrieval time and distinguish original records from generated summaries. Handle corrections, conflicting facts and deletion across indexes and caches.

The milestone

What it looks like when it is working

In your first 90 days, deliver a personal search workflow with source-linked answers, permission checks and a verified deletion path.

Required

What we would not hire without

  • ▸Information retrieval, database, or applied machine-learning experience
  • ▸You measure answer usefulness and source correctness rather than only similarity
  • ▸You keep provenance attached through the whole pipeline
  • ▸You can evaluate retrieval quality on a corpus that belongs to one person

Nice to have

What would be a bonus, not a gate

  • ▸Hybrid retrieval combining lexical and vector search
  • ▸Personal knowledge management or note systems
  • ▸On-device indexing under storage limits

Evidence

What would show us you can do it

Bring information-retrieval, database or ML application experience. Show how you measure answer usefulness and source correctness rather than only embedding similarity.

Evidence, not credentials. We are describing work you can point at, in whatever form it exists.

The exercise

How we would look at it together

Resolve a question when two documents disagree and only one may be shared with the requesting agent.

The package

What comes with the job

  • ▸Stock options for every full-time teammate, four-year vesting with a one-year cliff
  • ▸Annual performance bonus, or on-target earnings with uncapped commission for customer-facing roles
  • ▸Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover, on the highest plan tier available to us
  • ▸A 401(k) with company matching
  • ▸Pay reviewed every year and on promotion, benchmarked to your role and market
  • ▸A budget of AI tokens of your own
  • ▸Gym membership, and retailer discounts redeemed through our benefits app
  • ▸Remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time
  • ▸$1,000 plus $10,000 in equity for a referral we hire who stays a year

Indicative pay ranges by market and level are on the compensation page. Plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

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Personal Knowledge and Retrieval Engineer

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In a hundred words or so, the piece of work you are most proud of.

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