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Senior Software Engineer (Search / Retrieval)

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12 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of a scalable search cluster for millions of documents.
  • Deploy learning-to-rank models to optimize relevance using behavioral signals.
  • Build and scale robust Entity Recognition pipelines for enhanced document understanding.
  • Architect next-gen search infrastructure for dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing.
  • Drive improvements in query construction, indexing, and search performance.
  • Stay updated with the latest search and indexing technologies.
  • Collaborate with product and applied research teams to translate user needs into search innovations.
  • Produce clean, scalable code and influence system architecture across the relevance and platform stack.

Requirements

  • Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in search or information retrieval.
  • Strong proficiency in Python.
  • Hands-on experience with search engines like Opensearch or Elasticsearch.
  • Strong understanding of information retrieval concepts and modern neural search techniques.
  • Experience with text processing, NLP, and relevance tuning.
  • Familiarity with relevance evaluation metrics such as NDCG, MRR, and MAP.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication abilities and a collaborative mindset.

Tech Stack

ElasticsearchPython

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Science