Lead Platform Engineer, AI-Driven Search

MaintainX; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

MaintainX is seeking an expert in search systems to design and operate production-grade, end-to-end search platforms. You will model relevance across assets and work orders, integrate with data sources, and drive architectural decisions for scalable, reliable performance. Strong English proficiency required to lead multiple teams and present to executives.

The role emphasizes shipping fast, collecting feedback, and advancing AI-enabled search capabilities with modern tooling.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade search systems end-to-end.
• Expert level of English, both spoken and written, required to lead teams and communicate with executives.

Responsibilities

• Design and build MaintainX's end-to-end search platform, from indexing pipelines to AI-facing query layers.
• Model search across core entities like work orders and assets to ensure high-relevance results.
• Ship quickly, iterate, launch early versions and gather feedback for rapid improvement.
• Operate distributed systems for reliability, performance, and scalability under real-world load.
• Own integrations between search systems and upstream data sources and drive architectural decisions.

Skills

Search systems

English proficiency

Backend development

On-call support

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Lucene

Solr

Job description

MaintainX is seeking an expert in search systems to design and operate production-grade, end-to-end search platforms. You will model relevance across assets and work orders, integrate with data sources, and drive architectural decisions for scalable, reliable performance. Strong English proficiency required to lead multiple teams and present to executives.

The role emphasizes shipping fast, collecting feedback, and advancing AI-enabled search capabilities with modern tooling.