Lead Vector Search Engineer — Real-Time AI Search

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); Presencial; USD 160.000 - 253.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation days

Stock program

401k matching

Descripción de la vacante

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. You will drive vector similarity search features, design new algorithms, and ensure high-performance search across distributed systems.

You will lead a globally distributed team, collaborate with engineers across regions, and mentor others while writing idiomatic Java and contributing to open source practices.

Formación

• Experience with vector similarity and vector databases at scale.
• Strong core Java skills and knowledge of data structures and concurrency.
• Ability to drive projects end-to-end in a distributed team.
• Experience with open source projects and asynchronous collaboration.

Responsabilidades

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce a leading vector database offering.
• Build new search features and fix bugs; implement new algorithms when needed.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team focused on vector search capabilities.
• Serve as expert on Elasticsearch vector similarity and provide guidance to others.
• Engage with community via issues and pull requests and triage where needed.
• Write idiomatic modern Java.

Conocimientos

Vector similarity

Java

Distributed teamwork

Open source collaboration

Search/vector databases

Herramientas

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Descripción del empleo

Elastic, the Search AI Company, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search team. You will drive vector similarity search features, design new algorithms, and ensure high-performance search across distributed systems.

You will lead a globally distributed team, collaborate with engineers across regions, and mentor others while writing idiomatic Java and contributing to open source practices.