Staff Software Engineer, Search Quality
Staff Software Engineer, Search Quality
Staff Software Engineer, Search Quality
Databricks
Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Search Quality to lead the technical direction of ranking, relevance, evaluation, and quality initiatives for their next-generation Search product. The role involves designing and building systems and models to ensure high-quality search results across diverse datasets, while also mentoring engineers and defining long-term vision for search relevance.
Qualification
- Proven experience in software engineering with a focus on search technologies.
- Strong understanding of information retrieval techniques and neural ranking.
- Experience with designing and implementing machine learning models.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and mentor other engineers.
- Experience in building scalable and efficient systems for data processing.
Responsibility
- Lead the technical vision for Search Quality, shaping the ranking architecture and relevance modeling stack.
- Identify and solve challenges in ranking, query understanding, and hybrid retrieval.
- Design and train production-ready ranking and reranking models with quality and efficiency guarantees.
- Partner with research, product, and infra teams to define metrics and evaluation methodologies.
- Drive end-to-end engineering efforts from prototyping to production rollout.
- Build and operate resilient, low-latency services for ranking and evaluation.
