Location
madrid, comunidad de madrid, Spain
Posted
July 17, 2026
Job Description
- The Search Conversational Experiences team builds Elastic’s new conversational and agentic platform that lets customers chat with their own data in Elasticsearch
- We build the core quality layer for RAG, agents and tools, retrieval and citations, streaming, memory, and the evaluation signals that turn open-ended questions into grounded, reliable answers
- As a Principal Data Scientist, you will help set the technical direction for how we evaluate, improve, and scale chat quality across Elastic’s agentic platform
- You will define the evaluation strategy that guides product decisions, including which models we standardize on, how we route requests across agents, which tools we enable and when, and how we tailor agents to different Elastic use cases in search and beyond
- You will work closely with backend engineering, product, UX, and other data scientists to turn ambiguous, cutting‑edge problems into measurable product improvements
- You’l...