Senior Search Engineer — Hybrid AI, Ownership

iTEAMly; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

iTEAMly is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, build, and optimize advanced search systems that blend traditional, semantic, and hybrid approaches. You will drive relevance and quality across search experiences and own features from concept to production.

You will work with a modern stack and collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve performance and scalability, turning experiments into production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of commercial software engineering experience building or optimizing search systems.
• Practical knowledge of traditional search, semantic search, and hybrid search.
• Experience with search engines such as OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Vespa, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of search relevance, ranking, retrieval strategies, and performance optimization.
• Experience experimenting with and evaluating different search approaches.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize search solutions, focusing on relevance, accuracy, and search quality.
• Work with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search approaches.
• Experiment with different search strategies, evaluate results, and continuously improve performance.
• Take ownership of search-related features, from technical decisions to production implementation.
• Help the team make informed decisions about search technologies and architecture.
• Share practical knowledge and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Search engineering

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Ranking optimization

Independent worker

Product mindset

Tools

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Vespa

Job description

iTEAMly is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to design, build, and optimize advanced search systems that blend traditional, semantic, and hybrid approaches. You will drive relevance and quality across search experiences and own features from concept to production.

You will work with a modern stack and collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve performance and scalability, turning experiments into production-ready solutions.