Senior AI Search Solutions Engineer

Vespa.ai; Trondheim; Hybrid; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Vespa.ai in Trondheim seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to be the hands-on technical partner for top customers. You will design schemas, plan capacity, tune performance, and migrate from existing systems, from proof of concept to production and growth.

Expect to build, benchmark, debug and tune with customer teams and share learnings with Vespa engineering. You will be based on-site in Trondheim with occasional remote work as agreed, traveling to sites and events as needed to support global

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of search, ranking or database internals, and performance analysis on large systems.
• Experience working directly with external engineering teams or customers on technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, written and spoken.
• Good understanding of sound software engineering principles and practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Fluent written and spoken English. Norwegian is not required.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical counterpart for large customers and prospects.
• Design and review Vespa architectures: schemas, ranking, document and query processing, cluster topology.
• Plan capacity and lead performance tuning for large-scale deployments.
• Run proofs of concept and support migrations from other search/vector DB systems.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues with customers and the Vespa team.
• Feed customer requirements back into the Vespa roadmap and contribute to docs and samples.

Skills

Java

Python

Communication

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

English proficiency

Tools

Vespa

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Solr

Vector database

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Vespa.ai in Trondheim seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to be the hands-on technical partner for top customers. You will design schemas, plan capacity, tune performance, and migrate from existing systems, from proof of concept to production and growth.

Expect to build, benchmark, debug and tune with customer teams and share learnings with Vespa engineering. You will be based on-site in Trondheim with occasional remote work as agreed, traveling to sites and events as needed to support global