5 months ago
Toronto, Canada or Montréal, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop MaintainX’s end-to-end search and data-retrieval platform.
- Build indexing pipelines, ranking systems, and AI-oriented query layers.
- Model search across work orders, assets, procedures, and other key entities with product teams and subject-matter experts.
- Operate and optimize distributed systems for reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Lead architecture decisions balancing accuracy, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Manage integrations between search systems and upstream data sources.
- Explore semantic search, vector retrieval, and AI-based relevance improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotations currently limited to business hours.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating end-to-end production search systems, including indexing, query execution, relevance optimization, and infrastructure.
- Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, Solr, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of embeddings, chunking, and information-retrieval strategies.
- Expertise in search-specific optimization, including analyzers, BM25, shard sizing, cluster health, and relevance tuning.
- Ability to take systems from implementation through deployment and production operations across backend services, data pipelines, and integrations.
- Experience evaluating and improving search relevance using qualitative analysis and quantitative metrics is preferred.
- Experience deploying backend systems integrating AI or LLMs is preferred.
- Familiarity with GPT, Copilot, or Cursor is preferred.
- Understanding of multi-tenant environments and data security, including ACLs, field-level access controls, and secure index partitioning, is preferred.
- Experience implementing observability tools and success metrics is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and significant equity opportunities.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Global, diverse workplace and meritocratic culture.
Tech Stack
Elasticsearch
Categories
About MaintainX
MaintainX builds a mobile-first CMMS and work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams to manage work orders, assets, preventive maintenance, and inspections. The company sells its software as a subscription to manufacturers, facilities, and multi-site operators. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, MaintainX is part of Autodesk and is used by well-known brands such as McDonald’s and Duracell.