Data Scientist, Retrieval & Agentic Systems

Department: Engineering

Location: Madri

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Compensation: €85,000 - €95,000 / ye

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Location: Madrid, S

pain
Annual Remuneration: €85,000 - €95,000 and discretionary annual

bonus
Pay Frequency: M

onthly
Probationary Period: 1

80 days
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3-days

per week
TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Data Scientist, Retrieval & Agentic Systems based i

n Madrid.
Respon

• sibilities
  Owning and evolving Corestream, Kharon's risk intelligence feed — a dynamic platform that surfaces entity-level insights and topic-based risk narratives t
• o customersRedesigning and improving Kharon's semantic search capabilities, opening new avenues for content discovery — drawing on modern approaches including BM25 tuning, semantic distance, RAG, an
• d rerankingIntegrating Kharon's risk analysis outputs into the search layer, ensuring that graph-based insights surface meaningfully within search results and sub-network
• explorationDriving the evolution of Kharon's narrative generation pipeline — how we take graph and analytical data and transform it into compelling, accurate written intelligence fo
• r customersPartnering with Product and Engineering to take ownership of the Corestream roadmap and push it to its
• next stageTweaking and optimizing the metrics that define search quality and narrativ

e relevance
Qu

• alifications
  A proven interest or experience in global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or re
• lated domains3+ years of experience in a Data Science or AI Eng
• ineering roleHands-on experience with semantic search — including familiarity with BM25, vector search, reranking, and retriev
• al evaluationExperience with RAG pipelines and working with agentic systems
• in productionProficiency in P
• ython and SQLStrong product alignment — able to read a roadmap, take ownership of tickets, and drive initiatives forward
• independentlyBonus: Experience with graph-aware search or integrating knowledge graph outputs into retr

ieval system

s
About Kharon
Kharon operates at the nexus of global security and is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed deci

sions possible.
From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolute

ly unparalleled.
When you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s meaningful. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Data Scientist, Retrieval & Agentic Systems to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navig

ate global

risks.
Disclosures
Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or identity, neurodiversity, appearances, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individu

al with disability.
If you require any adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, please contact apply@kharon.com. You must have the right to work in Europe and Spain. Kharon is unable to offer visa sponso

rship for this role.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that Kharon will process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Spanish data protection legislation. For information about how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data, please review our Candidate Privacy Notice at www.kharon.com/privacy. You have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to lodge a complaint with the Spanish data protection authority, the AEPD, at www.aepd.es. To exercise your rights, contact us

at apply@kharon.com.
If your application is unsuccessful, your data will be retained for up to 12 months before being securely deleted. If you accept a role, your data will transfer to

your employee record.