Senior Vector Search Engineer — Real-Time Relevance Leader

Diiirect Inc.; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedules

Vacation days

Donation matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will shape advanced search features and influence relevance in Lucene across a distributed engineering organization.

You’ll design and implement scalable vector search capabilities, review code, and collaborate across continents. Proficiency in Java and modern data structures is essential, with a passion for fast, reliable software.

Qualifications

• Experience with vector similarity on large-scale search platforms.
• Proficient in core Java and concurrent programming.
• Familiar with AI-assisted development and debugging.
• Ability to own features from design to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver fast, relevant search features.
• Design and implement new search capabilities and fix bugs.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team.
• Improve search relevance and efficiency.
• Work with open source contributions and community issues.
• Write idiomatic Java code and review peers.

Skills

Vector search

Java

Distributed systems

Code review

Autonomous work style

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will shape advanced search features and influence relevance in Lucene across a distributed engineering organization.

You’ll design and implement scalable vector search capabilities, review code, and collaborate across continents. Proficiency in Java and modern data structures is essential, with a passion for fast, reliable software.