Senior Software Engineer, Vector Search & AI

Elasticsearch B.V.; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Flexible schedules and locations

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This role focuses on delivering a robust search experience, including improving Lucene-based search and contributing to the technical direction of our capabilities.

The team operates with a distributed model across continents, communicating via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. You will lead initiatives, design and implement new features, and tackle challenging bugs to maintain faster, more relevant

Qualifications

• Proven experience with vector similarity on large-scale search platforms.
• Experience with AI to accelerate development and debugging of complex systems.
• Proficiency in Java and modern language features.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver an industry-leading search engine with speed and relevance.
• Develop new search features and fix bugs; design algorithms or data structures as needed.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.

Skills

Vector similarity techniques

Java programming

Distributed teams collaboration

Open source collaboration

AI acceleration of development

Data storage systems knowledge

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Lucene

HNSW

IVF

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This role focuses on delivering a robust search experience, including improving Lucene-based search and contributing to the technical direction of our capabilities.

The team operates with a distributed model across continents, communicating via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack. You will lead initiatives, design and implement new features, and tackle challenging bugs to maintain faster, more relevant