Senior Software Engineer - Search

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Applied AI team at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. The successful candidate will drive enhancements to our Search Quality, focusing on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals, and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and deploying ML-based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services.
• Designing and implementing automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration.
• Collaborating with product managers and cross-functional teams to drive technology-first initiatives that enable novel business strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience.
• Contributing to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online.

Requirements include:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with a Master's or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years of experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments.
• Experience applying LLM to search relevance.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Contributions to well-used open-source projects.