Unify
Remote / San Francisco, CA
Competitive + equity

Software Engineer, Retrieval & Context

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Unify is the institutional-context layer agents draw on: a traversable filesystem agents navigate like a code repo, with a .context/ directory at every level where agents write what they learn during execution. Your job is to make that context accurate, retrievable, and compounding.

What you will do

  • Build hybrid retrieval that grounds every agent query in the customer's own documents, traces, and corrections.

  • Design the sleep-time distillation pipelines that turn raw execution traces into structured context between tasks.

  • Own the layout and lifecycle of the context filesystem: what gets written, where it lives, when it is superseded, and how agents discover it.

  • Measure retrieval quality against eval outcomes, not proxy metrics — the test is whether the next run is better.

You will thrive in this role if you

  • Have shipped search, retrieval, or knowledge systems and have strong opinions about where embeddings help and where they lie.

  • Care about data lifecycle problems: provenance, staleness, and contradiction are the interesting parts, not edge cases.

  • Enjoy designing systems that agents — not just humans — are the primary users of.

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Software Engineer, Retrieval & Context
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