Staff Software Engineer, AI Search
Databricks3 months ago
Base Salary
$166k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and evolution of the Search product, delivering scalable, low-latency, high-quality retrieval across massive multimodal datasets.
- Solve challenges in indexing, storage, query execution, ranking, vector search, keyword search, and hybrid retrieval.
- Partner with infrastructure, product, and research teams to shape APIs and developer experiences for production-grade AI-powered and search-driven applications.
- Lead engineering efforts from design through production rollout with high standards for performance, correctness, and reliability.
- Make high-impact contributions to systems powering search, discovery, and recommendation experiences.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical discussions, and collaborative development.
- Influence long-term technical planning for search, AI infrastructure, and data systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in vector, keyword, and hybrid search, including indexing, ranking, retrieval infrastructure, and relevance optimization.
- Familiarity with storage systems, recommendation engines, and database internals.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and system design for large-scale retrieval and data systems.
- Proven ability to deliver technically complex, high-impact initiatives that create customer or business value.
- Experience leading architecture for performance-sensitive, large-scale systems.
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Strategic and product-oriented mindset aligned with long-term technical vision.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering technical excellence.
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).