Senior Search Engineer - Scale & IR Systems

Firecrawl; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity options

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Learning and development budget

Team offsite events

Sabbatical policy

Job summary

A leading data extraction firm is seeking a Research Engineer to advance search and information retrieval systems. You will build and operate infrastructure handling billions of documents, ensuring indexing accuracy, relevance, and retrieval speed. This full-time role requires 3+ years of experience in search systems. You will collaborate with the research team and iterate on ranking models. Enjoy competitive pay, generous PTO, and a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role can be hybrid or remote within the Americas.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building search/IR systems at scale.
• Experience with ranking systems and relevance scoring.
• Hands-on with full search pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain indexing infrastructure at scale.
• Own the entire search pipeline from ingestion to serving.
• Solve ranking, relevance, and query understanding problems.
• Ensure index freshness and deduplication.
• Run experiments and ship results quickly.

Skills

Building search indexes

Ranking systems

Query understanding

Self-directed experimentation

Full stack ownership

Job description

A leading data extraction firm is seeking a Research Engineer to advance search and information retrieval systems. You will build and operate infrastructure handling billions of documents, ensuring indexing accuracy, relevance, and retrieval speed. This full-time role requires 3+ years of experience in search systems. You will collaborate with the research team and iterate on ranking models. Enjoy competitive pay, generous PTO, and a fast-paced, collaborative environment. This role can be hybrid or remote within the Americas.