Search Systems Engineer - Expert

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid interview compensation

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking engineers who have shipped production search systems, especially agentic ones, to join our team. We care about how you think about search quality, evaluation, and the tradeoffs you've made in real systems.

The interview is a 25-minute conversational session with no coding or take-home tasks. If you stand out, we’ll schedule a paid 30-minute live conversation with our team ($200) on completion.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production search systems used by real users.
• Experience owning relevance or retrieval on a live system.
• Experience scaling data infrastructure for search systems.

Responsibilities

• Converse for 25 minutes about search quality and evaluation.
• Share real-world war stories about tradeoffs in search systems.
• No coding or take-home tasks will be part of the interview.

Skills

Production search systems

Agentic search

Search relevance/retrieval

Data infrastructure for search

Job description

We're looking for engineers who have shipped production search systems (especially agentic ones now that we're in the era of LLMs and agents) and are thinking hard about the requirements and optimizations of those systems.

You've probably:

• Owned relevance or retrieval on a system real users depended on

• Decided how to quantify impact and improvements with these systems.

• Built out systems related to agentic search.

• Scaled data infrastructure to power modern search systems.

This is a 25-minute conversational interview. No coding, no take-home. We want to hear how you actually think about search quality, evaluation, and the tradeoffs you've made in real systems. Bring war stories - the messier and more specific, the better.

If your interview stands out, we'll follow up with a paid 30-minute live conversation with our team - $200 for your time, paid on completion of the call.