Senior Search Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Search Engineer (OpenSearch/ElasticSearch): Designing and scaling search infrastructure for a converged AI workspace with an accent on search relevance, indexing pipelines, and vector search. Focus on optimizing query parsing, solving complex distribution challenges, and building semantic search capabilities to power next-generation AI experiences.

Location: Remote (Must be based in the United States)

Salary: $200,000 – $250,000

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native company building a converged AI workspace that unifies tasks, docs, chat, and calendar into a single platform.

What you will do

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with a rapidly growing user base.
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver blazing fast results.
• Enhance real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date.
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power AI-driven search experiences.
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new platform features.
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role.
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch or ElasticSearch.
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems.
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning.
• Must be based in the United States.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice to have

• 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.
• Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance.
• Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity, 401k, and comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Employee wellness and professional development stipends.
• AI-native work environment where AI fluency is encouraged and evaluated.
• Spending accounts, life, and disability insurance.