Principal Vector Search Engineer - Remote

Neura Market; Schweiz; Hybrid; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to elevate the vector search experience within Elasticsearch. You will shape feature design, implementation, and performance in a globally distributed team working across continents to deliver fast, scalable search capabilities.

You will collaborate with open-source contributors and internal engineers, guiding projects end-to-end. The role emphasizes autonomous decision-making, asynchronous communication, and practical innovations in vector

Qualifikationen

• Experience with vector search in large-scale systems.
• Strong Java knowledge and concurrency.
• Ability to design autonomous projects end-to-end.
• Experience collaborating across remote teams.
• Familiarity with open source workflows.
• Experience with AI-assisted development is a plus.

Aufgaben

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.
• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.
• Be an expert on how Elasticsearch implements vector similarity in support of search relevance and improve this area.
• Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, triaging and handing off as needed.
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Kenntnisse

Vector similarity

Java

Distributed systems

Asynchronous collaboration

AI acceleration

Data storage technologies

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Jobbeschreibung

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to elevate the vector search experience within Elasticsearch. You will shape feature design, implementation, and performance in a globally distributed team working across continents to deliver fast, scalable search capabilities.

You will collaborate with open-source contributors and internal engineers, guiding projects end-to-end. The role emphasizes autonomous decision-making, asynchronous communication, and practical innovations in vector