Senior ML Search Engineer - Hybrid, GCP

Genuine Parts Company; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries is seeking a Search Engineer to design and build end-to-end Python backends and React frontends for AI-powered product discovery at scale.

You will work on retrieval pipelines, embeddings, and ML inference, deploying on GCP with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability. Hybrid work in Birmingham, AL, with collaboration across ML engineers and product teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional backend or full-stack experience with Python/React.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud-native apps on GCP or similar.
• Hands-on with microservices, REST/gRPC, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship search and AI-powered systems end-to-end.
• Develop event-driven architectures using GCP services (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Functions).
• Build and maintain Elasticsearch indexing pipelines, query services, and relevance tooling.
• Lead design sessions with Engineers and Architects; translate product requirements into clean, maintainable technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge-sharing to raise the team's skills.

Skills

Python

React

Cloud-native

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

REST/gRPC APIs

SOLID design

Mentorship

Communication

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Pinecone/Weaviate/FAISS

LangChain/LangGraph

Job description

Motion Industries is seeking a Search Engineer to design and build end-to-end Python backends and React frontends for AI-powered product discovery at scale.

You will work on retrieval pipelines, embeddings, and ML inference, deploying on GCP with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability. Hybrid work in Birmingham, AL, with collaboration across ML engineers and product teams.