Starburst
The Applied AI Research Engineer at Starburst owns the intelligence layer for AIDA's agents, ensuring they are correct, trustworthy, and continuously improving through rigorous evaluation. This role involves designing grounding systems, optimizing retrieval pipelines, and establishing quality metrics to connect agent reasoning with verified enterprise data. The position operates at the research and systems boundary, requiring the conversion of academic experiments into production-ready engineering solutions.
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Company Size
501-1000 employees
Founded
2017
Starburst is an enterprise intelligence platform that provides federated access to data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments without requiring data movement or replatforming. Built on Trino and Apache Iceberg, its platform enables fast analytics, governed data products, and AI-powered querying through its AIDA conversational analytics assistant. Starburst serves enterprises looking to unify data context, accelerate insights, and power AI agents across distributed data sources.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Sep 24, 2025