Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Search

About the job

Responsibilities

• Evolve agentic search systems by combining LLM and retrieval systems for complex queries.
• Design and execute benchmarks and experiments to measure and improve search quality.
• Contribute to the company's overall search quality standards.
• Develop NLP/LLM models and pipelines to transform raw documents into consumable data for retrieval systems.

Requirements

• 4 years of experience building production systems, with hands-on experience in search, information retrieval, content understanding, or recommendation systems at scale.
• Expertise in learned/hybrid retrieval, query understanding/NLU pipelines, or production LLM agent systems.
• Experience with production search frameworks (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, Vespa, OpenSearch) including relevance tuning and reranking.
• Fluency with modern LLM APIs and multi-provider orchestration (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), understanding token budgets, tool-calling semantics, and prompt-caching.
• Experience building eval-driven workflows (offline benchmarks, regression detection, A/B testing).
• Strong ownership and communication skills.
• Deep care for system scalability, reliability, and appropriate design patterns.
• Comfort operating in a dynamic, fast-paced, and outcome-driven environment.

Benefits

• Company bonus
• Equity awards
• Competitive health and wellness benefits
• 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, vision)
• 75% health coverage for dependents
• Market-leading leave policies
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• Compassionate leave
• Family forming support through Maven
• Paid time off
• Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and cell phone use
• Mental health support through Modern Health
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Regular team events