Senior Search Engineer — End-to-End Ranking & Retrieval

Lavendo, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 235.000 - 260.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance (employer-paid)

Dental insurance (employer-paid)

Vision insurance (employer-paid)

401(k) and pre-tax FSA

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Pet insurance

Commuter benefits

Wellness stipend

Learning & development budget

Descrizione del lavoro

Lavendo, Inc. is hiring for a Search Engineer to own ranking quality and relevance for our LLM-driven retrieval product. You will design and build crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems, pushing latency and cost down as volume grows.

You will work with the Head of Search and a small team across crawling, indexing, retrieval, and search serving, navigating constraints like freshness, deduplication, and latency to improve overall search quality.

Competenze

• 3+ years of production experience building and operating search or retrieval systems

Mansioni

• Own ranking quality and relevance for LLM-driven retrieval
• Design and build the crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems
• Push down latency and cost per query while search volume grows
• Own services end to end: design, ship, monitor, and iterate in production
• Work directly with the Head of Search and the rest of the search team on the roadmap

Conoscenze

Search systems

Ranking/re-ranking

End-to-end ownership

Backend programming

Go / Rust / Python

Strumenti

Go

Rust

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

Lavendo, Inc. is hiring for a Search Engineer to own ranking quality and relevance for our LLM-driven retrieval product. You will design and build crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems, pushing latency and cost down as volume grows.

You will work with the Head of Search and a small team across crawling, indexing, retrieval, and search serving, navigating constraints like freshness, deduplication, and latency to improve overall search quality.