Senior Search Engineer

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Requirements:

• Proven experience in software development – you have worked on business-critical systems that are deployed in production environments
• You’ve successfully led the design or architecture of new and existing system(s), ideally within the search/information-retrieval domain
• You have proficiency and experience working with search technologies, such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, Vector Databases, NLP and LLMs
• Strong leadership, teamwork, and communication skills
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems

Responsibilities:

• Help craft a technical strategy for search at Vannevar, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
• Improve both search latency and relevance
• Partner with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and quickly deliver customer value
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices; particularly within the search/information retrieval domain