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Over the next phase, we are expanding toward hybrid retrieval (vector + sparse + graph), multi-source ingestion, evaluation pipelines, agent infrastructure, harness and shared chat platform primitives.What You''ll Own Architect and implement backend services in Python 3.11, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy async, and asyncpg Design retrieval and orchestration trade-offs around quality, latency, cost, safety, and operational simplicity Build production-grade agent runtime capabilities: memory boundaries, tool sandboxing, permissions, and budget controls Improve answer grounding, failure analysis, and citation enforcement rather than optimizing for demo behavior Create observability and operational feedback loops with OpenTelemetry, PrometheGrafana, Docker/Helm, and GitHub Actions Work closely with product and engineering partners to support multiple conversational surfaces through one knowledge platform Ingestion infrastructure across current and future content sources Observability across application, pipeline, database, and model-serving behavior Cost, latency, throughput, and failure-mode management for AI-heavy workloads Release workflows that validate AI behavior changes, not just code compilationQualifications Strong hands-on experience with Python in platform, automation, or infrastructure-heavy environments Experience building CLI tools using Python, Golang or Rust. 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