Remote Senior Search Engineer - AI/IR & Indexing

Logoslabs; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hubs in San Francisco and New York

Flexible PTO with 11 US holidays + Dec

Health insurance—100% for policyholder

12 weeks paid parental leave

401k with 3% match

$500 work-from-home stipend

$1,200 Health & Wellness Allowance

Collaboration with AI research team

Job summary

You.com is seeking a Search Engineer to help advance its indexing and retrieval stack. You will design scalable indexing pipelines, improve ranking, and collaborate with data and ML teams to translate research into production systems.

This role is remote in the United States, with optional co-working spaces in SF Bay Area and New York. Ideal candidates have proven experience in search indexing, NLP/ML techniques, and high-performance programming in Rust/C++ and Python.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in search indexing, information retrieval, or large-scale data systems.
• Strong programming skills in Rust/C++ (for high performance) and Python.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience with experimental design, prototyping, and translating research into production.

Responsibilities

• Design and Implement Scalable Indexing Systems: Architect, prototype, and maintain efficient, robust, and distributed indexing pipelines for web-scale data.
• Advance Search Retrieval/Ranking: Research and apply state-of-the-art methods (NLP, ranking, ML) to improve index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with data engineers, ML engineers, and product teams to integrate novel features and user signals into the search systems.
• Profound love for Speed and Efficiency: Profile and optimize indexing workflows for low latency and high throughput.
• Evaluate and Benchmark: Define success metrics, run experiments, and analyze results to guide development and measure impact.
• Stay Current: Keep up with the latest research in information retrieval, large language models, and distributed systems—bringing fresh ideas to You.com’s search stack.

Skills

Rust/C++

Python

Information retrieval

Distributed systems

Experiment design

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

None

Job description

You.com is seeking a Search Engineer to help advance its indexing and retrieval stack. You will design scalable indexing pipelines, improve ranking, and collaborate with data and ML teams to translate research into production systems.

This role is remote in the United States, with optional co-working spaces in SF Bay Area and New York. Ideal candidates have proven experience in search indexing, NLP/ML techniques, and high-performance programming in Rust/C++ and Python.