Vannevar is building AI to deter adversaries, and their flagship product, Decrypt, relies heavily on search capabilities. The company needs to expand and improve its shared search platform to support new products and demanding mission environments, ensuring high-performance, reliable search at scale.
Requirements
- proficiency and experience working with search technologies, such as Lucene, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Vector Databases, NLP and LLMs
- You’ve successfully led the design or architecture of new and existing system(s), ideally within the search/information-retrieval domain
Responsibilities
- Help craft a technical strategy for search at Vannevar, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
- Improve both search latency and relevance
- Partner with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and quickly deliver customer value
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices; particularly within the search/information retrieval domain
- Translate requirements from dependent product teams into robust primitives and services
- Set and meet strict SLOs for relevance and latency
- Shape the long-term strategy for how search enables Vannevar’s products to surface mission-critical information at scale
Other
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development for business-critical systems that are deployed in production environments
- You have served as a senior engineer, or tech lead, and have demonstrated the ability to mentor and guide more junior engineers
- You have a passion for building reliable and scalable systems, and understand how these systems interact with customer experiences
- U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S only data systems
- 100% remote - work from anywhere in the US
