Senior AI Engineer (Search/Retrieval)

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. To learn more, visit www.workato.com

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Enterprise Retrieval team, you’ll help build the retrieval layer that powers enterprise AI agents at Workato. Your work will let an agent answer “what’s the status of the Acme renewal?” by stitching together a Salesforce opportunity, a call summary, the latest Zendesk ticket, a Jira blocker, and a SharePoint contract — all in one ranked, permission-aware response.

This is the kind of problem where classical Information Retrieval, dense vector retrieval, knowledge graphs, and LLM-driven reasoning all collide. You’ll work across heterogeneous content (docs, tickets, tasks, CRM records, call transcripts, chat threads), heterogeneous permissions (every source has its own ACL model), and very real freshness constraints (yesterday’s answer is often wrong).

It’s a hands-on Senior IC role for someone who wants to go deep on retrieval quality and see their work directly shape how thousands of enterprises put AI agents to work.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

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