About Us
Meraki Labs (founded by Mukesh Bansal & Peeyush Ranjan) builds and rapidly scales AI-first, "moonshot" startups. We're looking for a high-velocity, production-grade engineer to build 0-to-1 products alongside founders.
About the role
Proofline is live in production with institutional pilots underway. This role owns the capability end-to-end, from ingestion to retrieval quality, connecting across multiple sources of information for research institutions and enterprise research teams.
Founding AI Engineer — Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG)
Location: HSR, Bengaluru (5 days, on-site)
Experience: 7+ years
Responsibilities
• Own the retrieval pipeline: document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking.
• Build dual-corpus retrieval across published literature and private institutional documents, with provenance.
• Build citation and identifier resolution (DOI/arXiv-class) and large-corpus onboarding.
• Own retrieval evaluation: build the harness, set the metrics, prove improvement release over release.
Requirements
• ML/backend engineering with production RAG, search, or IR systems experience.
• Strong Python; hands-on with embeddings, vector stores, and rerankers; graph databases a plus.
• Demonstrated evaluation rigour: you can show how you measured and improved retrieval quality.
• Comfort with scientific or technical document corpora is a plus.
How We Work
Small team, high trust, written decisions. Designs get adversarial review before code; PRs get automated review driven to zero open findings; features aren't done until verified on a live system. AI agents do a large share of the implementation—your leverage is judgment: framing the problem, freezing the right design, and knowing when the machine is wrong.
You Should Apply If
• You enjoy turning messy problems into concrete solutions.
• You thrive in fast-moving, low-process environments.
• You're excited about production engineering (monitoring, reliability, cost, latency).
You Should Not Apply If
• You want remote/hybrid (this is onsite Bangalore only).
• You prefer narrow tickets and minimal ambiguity.
• You prefer highly structured, slow-moving product organizations.
The Recruiter for this role is Ritesh Kalvellu. Apply to the role directly, and he will get back to you if your profile is relevant to the hiring requirements.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience
- ML or backend engineering experience with production RAG, search, or information retrieval systems
- Strong Python skills
- Hands-on experience with embeddings, vector stores, and rerankers
- Ability to evaluate and improve retrieval quality using rigorous metrics and evaluation methods
- Experience with graph databases
- Comfort working with scientific or technical document corpora
- Willingness to work on-site five days per week in HSR, Bengaluru
What We Do
Meraki Labs is a Bangalore-based venture studio and startup incubator founded in 2020. It takes a hands-on approach to partnering with entrepreneurs and building companies around high-impact ideas, including deep-tech moonshots. Its portfolio and specialties span education, health, clean energy, e-mobility, fintech, fashion, and commerce. One initiative, Fermi, develops AI-powered tutoring tools that help students and teachers worldwide learn STEM subjects.
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