Senior Vector Search Engineer for Scale & Relevance

Elastic; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock program

RRSP matching

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Vacation days

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will lead initiatives to deliver a fast, relevant search experience and contribute to improving Lucene search capabilities.

The role requires deep Java expertise, experience with vector search, and collaboration across a distributed team of engineers as you design, implement, and optimize new features and algorithms.

Qualifications

• Experience with vector search on large-scale platforms.
• Proficient in core Java and concurrency.
• Implemented vector similarity techniques.
• Experience with AI acceleration in development.
• Familiar with open-source workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead Elasticsearch initiatives for industry-leading search.
• Develop new features and fix bugs; optimize performance.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams.
• Triage community issues and pull requests.
• Write idiomatic Java code.

Skills

Vector similarity

Java programming

Elasticsearch

Open source

Async collaboration

Distributed team

Code review

Data storage

Tools

HNSW

IVF

Search libraries

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will lead initiatives to deliver a fast, relevant search experience and contribute to improving Lucene search capabilities.

The role requires deep Java expertise, experience with vector search, and collaboration across a distributed team of engineers as you design, implement, and optimize new features and algorithms.