Senior Vector Search Engineer for Scalable AI-Powered Search

Elastic; Poland; On-site; PLN 308,000 - 487,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations & schedules

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. The role focuses on delivering a robust search experience and improving Lucene integration with an emphasis on speed and relevance.

You will lead initiatives across a globally distributed team, design new features, fix tough bugs, and advance vector search capabilities while maintaining high code quality and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience with search or vector databases at scale.
• Proficient in core Java and the JVM ecosystem.
• Autonomous with strong collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to deliver industry-leading search engine features.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch development, implement new features and fix bugs.
• Work with globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.
• Be expert on Elasticsearch search relevance and drive improvements.
• Review community issues and collaborate asynchronously.
• Write idiomatic modern Java.

Skills

Vector similarity

Java programming

Distributed systems

Code review & collaboration

Open source experience

AI in software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

HNSW/IVF

Git

Java ecosystem

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. The role focuses on delivering a robust search experience and improving Lucene integration with an emphasis on speed and relevance.

You will lead initiatives across a globally distributed team, design new features, fix tough bugs, and advance vector search capabilities while maintaining high code quality and performance.