Senior Software Engineer, Search Relevance & Vector AI

Neura Market; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 128,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible work locations

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to shape the technical direction, implement new search features, and improve relevance across distributed systems.

You'll work on industry-leading search capabilities, contribute to core code, and collaborate asynchronously with engineers

Qualifications

• Implemented novel techniques in vector similarity on a search platform with a large user base or progressed the field of academic research in vector similarity information retrieval.
• Professional experience with search or vector databases, and you used HNSW, IVF, or other relevant algorithms and libraries on search platforms at scale.
• You have solid skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as other features like lambdas.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine 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 Elasticsearch search relevance. You'll identify and drive improvements this area based on your questions and your instincts.
• Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself.
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- Elasticsearch is 99.8% Java!

Skills

Vector similarity techniques

Java

Search platforms (Elasticsearch/Solr)

Distributed systems

Open source collaboration

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to shape the technical direction, implement new search features, and improve relevance across distributed systems.

You'll work on industry-leading search capabilities, contribute to core code, and collaborate asynchronously with engineers