Senior Search Relevance Engineer, Elasticsearch

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Search AI Company is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This globally distributed group builds a robust search experience and contributes to improvements in Lucene.

You will lead initiatives, design new search features, tackle bugs, and push performance. You’ll work with a remote-first team using email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack, writing idiomatic Java and shaping the direction of vector search capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience with search or vector databases at scale using algorithms like HNSW or IVF.
• Strong Java knowledge and familiarity with concurrency and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to deliver fast, relevant search.
• Contribute to Elasticsearch features and fix bugs.
• Collaborate with a globally distributed team on vector search.
• Write idiomatic Java and optimize performance.

Skills

Search/Vector databases

Core Java

Job description

The Search AI Company is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This globally distributed group builds a robust search experience and contributes to improvements in Lucene.

You will lead initiatives, design new search features, tackle bugs, and push performance. You’ll work with a remote-first team using email, GitHub, Zoom, and Slack, writing idiomatic Java and shaping the direction of vector search capabilities.