Senior Search Engineer
Remote
Senior Search Engineer
Search is at the heart of Vannevar’s flagship product, Decrypt, and the number of business-critical use cases is growing as we expand into new products. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, with substantial knowledge and passion for search & information retrieval, to drive innovation in this space. In this role, you will work directly with our ML team to advance a state-of-the-art search system that fundamentally drives our users’ ability to surface mission critical information.
What You’ll Do
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
What we offer
The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $215,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams. Apply
Job Profile
RestrictionsU.S. Person status required
Benefits/Perks100% Remote 100% remote first culture Child and pet care reimbursement Child and pet care reimbursement during travel Dental Insurance Equity Fully Paid Parental Leave Fully remote Health insurance Lifestyle stipends Paid parental leave Remote work Salary top-up during military reserve duty Salary top-up for military duty Unlimited PTO Vision Insurance WeWork access
Tasks- Build software
- Craft technical strategy
- Leverage search technologies
- Partner with engineers and product managers
- Stay updated on trends
Communication Databases Data Systems Defense software ElasticSearch Emerging Technologies Full-text search Information Retrieval Leadership LLMs Lucene NLP Relevance algorithms Search Software Development Strategy Teamwork Vector databases
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