Senior Software Engineer, Search
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VannevarDefense Technology
Remote friendlyFull-TimeSenior
Salary$150,000 - $215,000 + equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience in backend software development, with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentElasticSearchMachine LearningNLP
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in backend software development
- 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
- Passion for architecting, developing and deploying reliable, scalable, and performant systems
- Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning
- Deep understanding of concepts like indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design and adapt the technical strategy for search within Vannevar’s products, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
- Improve both search latency and relevance
- Collaborate with product engineers, designers, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations
- Research and apply emerging technologies, trends and best practices in the search/information retrieval domain to improve index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance
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