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🥝 Research Engineer, Applied AI

kapa.ai | Remote, Switzerland | Posted June 03, 2026

Job Description

Kapa makes technical knowledge instantly accessible through AI assistants. As a research engineer you will work on improving Kapa’s ability to answer harder and harder technical questions. Check out Docker’s documentation ( for a live example of what Kapa is (look for the “Ask AI” button).

The Following Challenges Should Excite You

  • Evaluating a RAG system in production without labelled data.
  • Creating your own benchmark from scratch.
  • Building an agentic retrieval system that can judge when to be fast and when to take more time.
  • Fine tuning embeddings or rerank models.

To Solve These Challenges You Will

  • Work directly with the founding team and our software engineers.
  • Keep up with the latest developments in the space and see how they can be applied.
  • Design and run experiments.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

  • A Master's/ PhD degree in Computer Sc...

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