TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI, ML Search): Building and optimizing high-scale backend and pipeline systems to integrate ML models into search experiences for millions of users with an accent on data flows, ranking and retrieval services, and low-latency model-serving APIs. Focus on creating robust infrastructure, ensuring operational excellence, and enabling fast iteration for discovery across %hirify_global%'s platform.

Location: Completely remote from the United States

Salary: $23,000 - $322,000 USD

Company

%hirify_global% is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, providing an open and authentic platform for conversation.

What you will do

Own pipelines and DAGs for moving data, features, embeddings, and models through the ML lifecycle.
Design and maintain ranking and retrieval services that run models in real-time.
Build scalable model-serving APIs, ensuring reliability, efficiency, and performance.
Create reusable infrastructure for training, deploying, and iterating on models.
Ensure pipelines and systems support high scale, low latency, and operational excellence.
Enable modeling with improved systems, features, and deployment pathways.

Requirements

8+ years of industry experience with a focus on search and recommendation systems.
6+ years of experience in designing, building, and iterating large-scale search relevance and infrastructure systems.
Proficient in object-oriented programming (Python, Golang).
Experience in API design and integration with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift or gRPC.
Experience of developing applications using large-scale data stack (Kubeflow, Airflow, BigQuery, Kafka, Kubernetes, Redis).
Knowledge and experience working with search systems (e.g., Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, Opensearch).

Culture & Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and 401k Matching.
Workspace benefits for home office.
Personal & Professional development funds.
Family Planning Support.
Flexible Vacation & %hirify_global% Global Wellness Days.
4+ months paid Parental Leave and Paid Volunteer time off.

Staff Software Engineer, ML Search (AI)