Staff / Principal Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff / Principal Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search) based in Switzerland. Join a fast-growing team building an agent-native search platform designed specifically for AI systems.Shape how intelligent agents discover, retrieve, evaluate, and reason over real-time web information.Lead applied AI research across retrieval, ranking, grounding, and multi-step agentic workflows.Design systems that operate over constantly changing, unstructured data at significant scale.Balance relevance, latency, reliability, and cost while supporting high-throughput production workloads.Define new evaluation approaches for agentic systems where traditional search metrics are no longer sufficient.Work closely with engineering and product teams to turn research ideas into measurable production impact.