Senior Software Engineer, Vector Search, Elasticsearch
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Elastic is the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash). It sells search, observability, and security products built on that search engine, primarily through its Elastic Cloud managed service.
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Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch joins the Search Relevance team to drive technical direction and vision for search capabilities. This role involves designing and implementing new features, enhancing functionality, and resolving bugs within the Lucene framework. The engineer will build high-performance search engines by developing new algorithms or data structures, potentially working close to the operating system and hardware. Key responsibilities include managing community pull requests and improving vector search capabilities for large user bases. Candidates must possess expert knowledge in Java, including standard libraries, concurrency constructs, and lambdas. Required experience includes implementing novel techniques in vector similarity using HNSW or IVF algorithms on platforms like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra. The role focuses on solving complex problems in the domain of search relevance and vector information retrieval for large-scale data systems.
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