Principal Vector Search Engineer — Distributed Java

Neura Market; Town of Sweden (NY); On-site; USD 86,080 - 136,164; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic is a distributed company offering a robust vector search experience. We develop industry-leading vector similarity features for Elasticsearch and contribute to Lucene, collaborating across continents via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

You will work on vector search capabilities in a globally distributed team, focusing on design, implementation, and performance improvements while embracing asynchronous collaboration and open-source practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering with fast, relevant search.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch full-time, building new search features and fixing bugs; design new algorithms or data structures as needed.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers on vector search capabilities and related APIs.
• Be the go-to expert on vector similarity implementation in Elasticsearch to support search relevance and system performance.
• Coordinate with community members on issues and pull requests, triaging or delegating as appropriate.
• Write idiomatic modern Java; contribute to core Java code as Elasticsearch is largely Java-based.

Job description

Elastic is a distributed company offering a robust vector search experience. We develop industry-leading vector similarity features for Elasticsearch and contribute to Lucene, collaborating across continents via email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

You will work on vector search capabilities in a globally distributed team, focusing on design, implementation, and performance improvements while embracing asynchronous collaboration and open-source practices.