Senior AI Engineer with production experience building enterprise Work AI, retrieval, assistant, and ML-backed marketplace systems. Strong in Python, PyTorch, transformers, RAG, hybrid search, embeddings, and evaluation/monitoring pipelines. Turns ambiguous AI product ideas into reliable production systems—grounding strategy, permission-aware workflows, model integration APIs, observability, launch criteria, and post-release quality monitoring.

Rich Yang

Senior AI Engineer with production experience building enterprise Work AI, retrieval, assistant, and ML-backed marketplace systems. Strong in Python, PyTorch, transformers, RAG, hybrid search, embeddings, and evaluation/monitoring pipelines. Turns ambiguous AI product ideas into reliable production systems—grounding strategy, permission-aware workflows, model integration APIs, observability, launch criteria, and post-release quality monitoring.

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Senior AI Engineer with production experience building enterprise Work AI, retrieval, assistant, and ML-backed marketplace systems. Strong in Python, PyTorch, transformers, RAG, hybrid search, embeddings, and evaluation/monitoring pipelines.

Turns ambiguous AI product ideas into reliable production systems—grounding strategy, permission-aware workflows, model integration APIs, observability, launch criteria, and post-release quality monitoring.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Engineer at Glean
September 1, 2022 - Present
Built production AI capabilities for Glean’s Work AI platform across enterprise search, AI assistant experiences, and agent workflows. Developed Python services and APIs integrating enterprise indexes, permissions metadata, retrieval/ranking, model providers, and evaluation datasets into product surfaces. Improved hybrid retrieval using embeddings, lexical signals, metadata filtering, freshness, and organizational context. Designed grounded-answer workflows with citation/source attribution, query rewriting, context selection, and fallback behavior. Implemented permission-aware grounding to prevent unauthorized content exposure. Created model-integration layers with prompt orchestration, timeout handling, structured logging, cost-aware inference, and provider fallback. Built evaluation pipelines for relevance, groundedness, citation quality, agent completion, and regression risk. Instrumented production services with traces for context/model outputs, latency, token/cost usage, failu
Software Engineer at DoorDash
November 1, 2019 - August 1, 2022
Built production backend, data, and ML-adjacent systems for marketplace/logistics workflows including demand forecasting, ranking, personalization, and operational decision support. Developed service APIs and data contracts emphasizing reliability, experiment readiness, observability, and rollback-safe releases. Created feature pipelines with Python, SQL, Spark, Airflow, and Kafka to produce training/evaluation/monitoring datasets for high-volume models. Implemented ranking/recommendation/forecasting workflows for discovery, dispatch planning, triage, and marketplace experimentation. Built internal React/TypeScript tools and dashboards for ops review, experiment analysis, and data/model quality inspection. Hardened data workflows for late events, schema changes, backfills, and idempotent retries with data-quality monitoring across batch and streaming pipelines. Improved reliability using structured logging, automated validation, deployment guardrails, and dashboards for feature fresh
Software Engineer Intern at Facebook
August 1, 2019 - October 1, 2019
Internship focused on internal product tooling, experimentation workflows, and production-quality engineering practices. Built UI and backend integrations for tools to inspect product behavior, operational signals, and experiment results. Worked through code reviews, testing, and logging/metrics, and followed service integration standards with senior engineers.

Education

M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
B.S. in Computer Science at University of Wyoming
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
B.S. in Computer Science at University of Wyoming
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
B.S. in Computer Science at University of Wyoming
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017
M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2019
B.S. in Computer Science at University of Wyoming
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

Data Science Professional Certificate
July 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026
Deep Learning Specialization
May 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026
Data Science Professional Certificate — IBM
July 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026
Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI
May 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026
Data Science Professional Certificate
July 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026
Deep Learning Specialization
May 1, 2019 - August 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Transportation & Logistics