Senior AI-Powered Search Engineer

AVEVA; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AVEVA in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Search Engineer to join AVEVA’s AI & Digital Delivery hub. You will shape and deliver fast, relevant, and AI-enhanced search experiences across customer and partner portals using Solr, Elasticsearch, and Alibaba OpenSearch.

You will work with back-end languages like C#, Python, or Java, implement indexing pipelines, and continually improve search quality through data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in search engineering or information retrieval.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Solr and/or Elasticsearch, including cluster management, schema design, and query tuning.
• Experience designing search relevancy models, scoring approaches, indexing pipelines, and ETL processes.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as C#, Python, or Java.
• Understanding of NLP fundamentals for search, including tokenisation, stemming, and entity recognition.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement search architecture for the Unified Partner Experience and customer portal platforms.
• Deploy, configure, and optimise Solr, Elasticsearch, and/or Alibaba OpenSearch for multi-region search workloads.
• Develop search relevancy models, including scoring, boosting, synonyms, and query analysis.
• Build search APIs, indexing pipelines, faceted search, auto-complete, type-ahead, and AI-enhanced search features.
• Monitor search performance, relevancy metrics, and user behaviour to continuously improve search quality.

Skills

Solr experience

Elasticsearch experience

Query tuning

Cluster management

NLP for search

Backend programming (C#/Python/Java)

Production-scale search

Tools

Apache Solr

Elasticsearch

Azure Cognitive Search

AWS OpenSearch

Alibaba OpenSearch

Job description

AVEVA in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Search Engineer to join AVEVA’s AI & Digital Delivery hub. You will shape and deliver fast, relevant, and AI-enhanced search experiences across customer and partner portals using Solr, Elasticsearch, and Alibaba OpenSearch.

You will work with back-end languages like C#, Python, or Java, implement indexing pipelines, and continually improve search quality through data-driven insights.