Lead Search Optimization Engineer for Agentic & LLM

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 227,000 - 324,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking engineers who have shipped production search systems and who think deeply about the requirements and optimizations of these systems. You have likely owned relevance or retrieval on a system real users depended on, and you have decided how to quantify impact and improvements.

You’ve built out systems related to agentic search and scaled data infrastructure to power modern search systems. This is a 25-minute conversational interview with no coding or take-home, and we’ll pay a

Qualifications

• Experience with production search systems.
• Ability to quantify impact and improvements.
• Experience designing and evaluating search quality metrics.

Responsibilities

Skills

Search relevance

Retrieval systems

Agentic search

Data infrastructure

Job description

Obsidian is seeking engineers who have shipped production search systems and who think deeply about the requirements and optimizations of these systems. You have likely owned relevance or retrieval on a system real users depended on, and you have decided how to quantify impact and improvements.

You’ve built out systems related to agentic search and scaled data infrastructure to power modern search systems. This is a 25-minute conversational interview with no coding or take-home, and we’ll pay a