ClickUp is seeking a Staff Search Engineer to optimize and enhance its search functionality, a critical feature underpinning its AI efforts, to ensure users can instantly find what they need across their workspace, making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
- Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
- Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
- Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
- Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
- Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
- Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
- Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
- Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
- Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
- Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
- Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
- Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
Other
- 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
- Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance
