Staff Software Engineer, AI SearchActive$166K
The opportunity
RDQ427R351 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best…
What you'll do
Drive the architecture and evolution of the Search product, delivering: scalable, low-latency, and high-quality retrieval across massive multimodal datasets.
Identify and solve challenges in indexing, storage, query execution, and: ranking — blending innovations in vector search, keyword search, and hybrid retrieval techniques.
Partner with infrastructure, product, and research teams to shape APIs and: developer experiences that make it easy to build production-grade, AI-powered and search-driven applications.
Lead end-to-end engineering efforts: from design to production rollout — ensuring high standards for performance, correctness, and reliability.
Make direct, high-impact contributions to core systems powering search,: discovery, and recommendation experiences.
Champion software engineering excellence and mentor other engineers through: design reviews, technical discussions, and collaborative development.
What they're looking for
- Contribute to long-term planning and influence Databricks’ technical: direction in search, AI infrastructure, and data systems.
- + years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Search technologies (vector, keyword, hybrid) and related: domains such as indexing, ranking, retrieval infrastructure, and relevance optimization.
- Familiarity with storage systems, recommendation engines, and database internals.
