Staff Software Engineer AI Search
Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.
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About Databricks
Data engineers, analysts, and AI teams use Databricks to process large datasets, build reliable pipelines, and train models on a single governed platform. Users can run SQL analytics, serve ML predictions in real time, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data. Its open lakehouse architecture provides consistent security and governance across analytical and operational workloads.
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About the Role
You will design and evolve a search platform spanning vector, keyword, and hybrid retrieval. You will solve indexing, storage, query execution, and ranking challenges, shape APIs and developer experiences, and lead production engineering efforts focused on performance, correctness, and reliability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Vector search
- Keyword search
- Hybrid retrieval
- Indexing
- Ranking
- Retrieval infrastructure
- Relevance optimization
- Storage systems
- Recommendation engines
- Database internals
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- System design
- Architecture leadership for performance-sensitive systems
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and evolution of the search product
- Deliver scalable, low-latency, high-quality retrieval across multimodal datasets
- Solve indexing, storage, query execution, and ranking challenges
- Shape APIs and developer experiences for AI-powered search applications
- Lead engineering efforts from design through production rollout
- Contribute to core search, discovery, and recommendation systems
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and technical discussions
- Influence long-term technical direction for search and data systems
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity