# Sr Software Engineer, Search

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/databricks/jobs/7958967002
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## Description

We are seeking multiple ML Engineers to drive enhancements to our Search Quality. As our Search product continues to evolve, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale.

Key Responsibilities: Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services. Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration. Collaborate 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. Contribute to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online.

What We’re Looking For: BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field. 6+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments. Experience applying LLM to search relevance - Experience in one or more of the following: Query understanding NLP Text mining Recommendations Personalization Discovery Conversational AI Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals. Contributions to well-used open-source projects.

Why Join Us? At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with a world-class team of AI and ML experts.

About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organisations worldwide , including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 , rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.

Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.

Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

## Skills

### Required
- Search relevance systems
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Text mining
- Recommendations
- Personalization
- Discovery
- Conversational AI