AI Knowledge Data Engineer

About this role

About iBusiness Funding

iBusiness Funding is a software and lender service provider specializing in small business lending. Our technology, team, and process enable us to support loans from $10,000 to $25 million for our lending partners. Our technology solutions have been proven to quickly scale our clients’ portfolios without the need for additional overhead. Our flagship product, LenderAI, features end-to-end lending functionality from sales all the way through servicing.

To date, we’ve processed over $11 billion in SBA and non-SBA volume and handle more than 1,000 business loan applications daily. Our team is driven by our core values of innovation, integrity, enjoyment, and family.

Join us and be part of a team that’s transforming the finance industry and empowering businesses to thrive!

Position Description

We are seeking an experienced expert AI Knowledge Data Engineer to design, implement, and scale state-of-the-art AI systems that combine large language models (LLMs), advanced retrieval techniques, cognitive memory architectures, including knowledge representation, and data fusion. In this role, you will orchestrate robust data pipelines, architect scalable training data solutions, and build the foundational knowledge bases that power next-generation AI agents. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems efficiently retrieve, contextualize, and generate accurate information for diverse business applications.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Architect, implement, and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows by integrating local LLMs (e.g., Llama) with retrieval mechanisms (vector search, Elasticsearch, FAISS, Weaviate).
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, indexing, and retrieving structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.
• Design, build, and scale addressable services and tools specifications that can be leveraged by LLMs and Agents to orch...