Senior Search Engineer - AI/IR Lead (Remote)

Vannevar; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Remote friendly with WeWork access

Unlimited PTO

401(k) match

Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends

Military reserve duty top-up

Fully paid parental leave

Travel care reimbursements

Job summary

Vannevar, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a deep focus on search and information retrieval to advance a state-of-the-art search system used to surface mission-critical information for decision-makers on the front lines.

You will partner with ML and product teams to design strategy for full-text search, vector databases, NLP, and relevance algorithms, while driving improvements in latency, accuracy, and scalability across our platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software experience.
• 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields.
• Expertise in NLP and ML concepts (indexing, ranking, tokenization).
• Experience with vector search and major search engines like Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

Responsibilities

• Design and steer the technical strategy for search within Vannevar’s products, including full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and ranking algorithms.
• Improve search latency and relevance.
• Collaborate with product engineers, designers, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations.
• Research and apply emerging search technologies to improve index quality and retrieval performance.

Skills

Backend development

Search/IR

NLP

Vector search

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Job description

Vannevar, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a deep focus on search and information retrieval to advance a state-of-the-art search system used to surface mission-critical information for decision-makers on the front lines.

You will partner with ML and product teams to design strategy for full-text search, vector databases, NLP, and relevance algorithms, while driving improvements in latency, accuracy, and scalability across our platforms.