Hands-On R&D Lead - Agentic Data Infrastructure

We are seeking an agile, hands-on R&D Lead who excels at rapid learning and making smart, pragmatic decisions to drive our core data engineering squad in Tel Aviv. We care less about years spent in formal management or having a decades-long resume, and much more about your ability to take extreme ownership, learn new paradigms on the fly, and keep the team moving forward.

In this role, you will help architect, write, and deploy the Python-based infrastructure that processes millions of records daily and serves them at sub-second latency to autonomous AI systems. You will guide the design of high-scale data pipelines, integrate semantic search paradigms, and build out our agentic connectivity layer. If you are a proactive decision-maker who thrives on optimizing complex systems and wants to build the infrastructure that LLMs rely on to understand the real world, this is your next role.

Key responsibilities
Execution & Decisive Leadership: Lead the technical delivery by setting the pace and making pragmatic architectural choices that keep the team moving forward. You prioritize shipping and iterating over analysis paralysis.
Hands-On Development (Python): Roll up your sleeves and remain technical. Write clean, concurrent, and scalable Python code to handle data ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines.
Continuous Learning & Tech Agility: Work across a polyglot environment. You dont need to know every tool on day one, but you must be eager to rapidly evaluate, learn, and adopt the optimal databases, message brokers, and execution frameworks to manage technical debt.
Agentic Infrastructure & MCP: Deploy systems that allow autonomous agents to seamlessly query our datasets. You will help build and scale our Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, translating LLM intents into highly optimized database queries.
High-Scale Data Pipelines: Oversee an end-to-end data architecture capable of supporting continuous ingestion, error cleansing, and near-real-time refreshing of a 1B+ record database while enforcing GDPR and CCPA compliance.
Search & Retrieval Integration: Design and optimize advanced search capabilities, leveraging vector databases, embeddings, and hybrid search techniques to ensure absolute precision when AI models query our data.