Senior Software Engineer: Vector & Hybrid Retrieval Systems

Torentify; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Savings

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Torentify is seeking to design and implement advanced database capabilities for JSON and document workloads, including hybrid lexical/vector retrieval, within the database engine. You will help lead the architectural design of search infrastructure and AI-facing features.

The role emphasizes strong systems engineering, concurrency handling, and experience with C or Java in production environments.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineering experience in production software.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, concurrency, and storage.
• Proficiency in C or Java and experience with database or search engines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core database functionality for JSON, document workloads, and hybrid lexical/vector retrieval systems.
• Lead architectural design of search infrastructure and AI-facing capabilities within the database engine.

Skills

Database Internals

Search Engine Development

Full-Text Search

Hybrid Retrieval

Vector Search

Query Processing

Query Optimization

Indexing

Storage Engines

Document Databases

SQL

JSON

Distributed Systems

Systems Programming

C

Java

Job description

Torentify is seeking to design and implement advanced database capabilities for JSON and document workloads, including hybrid lexical/vector retrieval, within the database engine. You will help lead the architectural design of search infrastructure and AI-facing features.

The role emphasizes strong systems engineering, concurrency handling, and experience with C or Java in production environments.