Founding AI Engineer - Proofline
Role Overview
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)
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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.
About Meraki Labs
Indian venture studio that builds and scales AI-first deep-tech moonshot startups with founders.
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