Sr. Software Engineer - Professional Archive Search & AI

📋 Description

• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to design and deliver scalable search and data solutions
• Bridge traditional lexical search and modern semantic search approaches
• Design and implement hybrid search strategies combining keyword-based and vector-based retrieval
• Work with vector databases to manage and query high-dimensional embeddings
• Design and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines for long documents and retrieval quality
• Build and maintain high-throughput streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka) for real-time ingestion and indexing

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and operating software in a modern private cloud-based environment
• Strong background in distributed systems and data-intensive applications
• Experience with search technologies such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, or Solr
• Hands-on experience with vector similarity search and vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, Milvus, Vespa)
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts and architectures
• Understanding of knowledge graphs or graph-based data modeling concepts

🎁 Benefits

• Healthcare insurance: We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
• Stock options.
• Personal time off: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements.
• 401K Match: Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
• Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical programme provides a time to recharge, study or simply do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
• Recognition: We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition programme enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition.