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About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Leidos currently has
245 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$107,900–$195,050
across 235 roles with salary data.
Leidos seeks a Search Engineer to join their team supporting a Federal customer’s enterprise search platform, focusing on both software development and operations & maintenance using Apache Solr, Flume, Spark, Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, and AWS OpenSearch. The role involves ensuring the reliability of indexing and retrieval services by addressing failures, data issues, performance degradation, and implementing modernization efforts towards semantic search, vector embeddings, hybrid retrieval, and RAG. Key responsibilities include maintaining search applications, performing routine maintenance, troubleshooting issues, optimizing configurations, and supporting bulk indexing operations while working in a regulated environment with strong emphasis on SLA compliance and system stability. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in enterprise search platforms, Linux environments, Java or Python programming, SQL Server expertise, and familiarity with AWS OpenSearch, semantic search, and RAG pipelines.
Python
Tensorflow
Pytorch
Jax
Java
C++
Hadoop
Spark
Hive
Generative AI
Large Language Models
NLP
Classification
Feature Engineering
Information Extraction
Clustering
Semi-supervised Learning
Topic Modeling
Ranking
Big Data Processing