2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and adapt the technical strategy for search across Vannevar products and agentic workflows.
- Improve search latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance.
- Collaborate with product engineers, designers, ML teams, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations.
- Research and apply emerging search and information-retrieval technologies, trends, and best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend software development experience, including 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields.
- Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning, with deep knowledge of indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine, such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
- Familiarity with search evaluation frameworks and metrics including precision, recall, and NDCG.
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying reliable, scalable, and performant systems.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
- U.S. Person status is required because the position requires access to U.S.-only data systems.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-friendly work arrangement with WeWork access.
- Unlimited PTO, federal-holiday shared downtime, and company-wide time off at the end of each year.
- 401(k) match and lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
- Fully paid parental leave.
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.
- Equity is included in addition to the stated salary range.
Tech Stack
Elasticsearch
Categories
About Vannevar
Vannevar Labs builds AI-driven mission software for U.S. defense, intelligence, and national security agencies, used for targeting, planning, and decision support. It sells government-focused software products powered by large adversarial data sets, including an agentic AI platform that models adversary behavior and recommends courses of action. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with deployments across U.S. government programs.