
Contextual AI provides enterprises a modular platform that lets teams build and deploy custom generative AI agents tailored to domain-specific workflows. It implements a context layer and RAG 2.0 techniques to connect large volumes of enterprise data and improve accuracy out of the box. The product is positioned as a B2B SaaS development platform for AI agents, removing the need for teams to construct RAG infrastructure from scratch. Fortune 500 customers including HSBC, Qualcomm, and Advantest use Contextual AI to scale AI-driven workflows and boost productivity for subject-matter experts.

Contextual AI provides enterprises a modular platform that lets teams build and deploy custom generative AI agents tailored to domain-specific workflows. It implements a context layer and RAG 2.0 techniques to connect large volumes of enterprise data and improve accuracy out of the box. The product is positioned as a B2B SaaS development platform for AI agents, removing the need for teams to construct RAG infrastructure from scratch. Fortune 500 customers including HSBC, Qualcomm, and Advantest use Contextual AI to scale AI-driven workflows and boost productivity for subject-matter experts.
What they do: Modular enterprise platform for building and deploying custom generative AI agents with a context-engineering layer and RAG 2.0 techniques
Founded: 2023
Founders / leadership: Douwe Kiela (Founder & CEO) and Amanpreet Singh (CTO & Co‑founder)
Customers: Fortune 500 customers including HSBC, Qualcomm, Advantest
Funding to date: Reported total $100,000,000 (seed $20M; Series A reported Aug 1, 2024)
Knowledge-intensive enterprise workflows requiring accurate, verifiable AI agents and scalable retrieval/aggregation of enterprise data.
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Software Development
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Company emerged from stealth with $20M seed funding
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Series A reported on Aug 1, 2024
“Bain Capital Ventures, Greycroft, Lightspeed, SV Angel, Bezos Expeditions, NVentures (NVIDIA), HSBC Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, and multiple angel investors”
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About Contextual AI We're revolutionizing how AI Agents work by solving AI's most critical challenge: context. The right context at the right time unlocks the accuracy and production scale that enterprises leveraging AI require. Our enterprise AI development platform sits at the intersection of breakthrough AI research and practical developer needs. Our end-to-end platform allows AI developers to easily and accurately ingest and query documents from enterprise data sources and easily embed retrieval results into their business workflows.
Contextual AI was founded by the pioneers of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the foundational technique behind the context layer, connecting foundation models to current and relevant information. Backed by the industry's most forward-thinking venture capitalists, we're not just participating in the enterprise AI revolution, we're defining it. Join us in building a future where AI doesn't just answer questions, it transforms businesses.
As a Member of Technical Staff specializing in Research, you will work on cutting-edge AI research projects, contributing to advancements in Contextual RAG pipelines, including retrieval systems and language models, alignment and end-to-end training methods.
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What we're seeking
Salary Range for California Based Applicants: $180,000 - $300,000 + equity + benefits (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Equal Employment Contextual AI provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected classification. Equal employment opportunity includes but is not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, transfer, leaves of absence, and termination. Contextual AI takes allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation seriously, and will promptly investigate when such behavior is reported.