Senior Software Engineer, Vertical Search (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI/Search): Building an agent-native search platform designed for AI systems with an accent on retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and entity resolution. Focus on optimizing the retrieval layer, developing structured-extraction pipelines, and improving IR metrics for domain-specific verticals.

Location: Israel. Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply.

Company

hirify.global is a full-stack AI cloud platform providing GPU orchestration and inference optimization for developers and enterprises.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate the retrieval system for specific search verticals.
• Build knowledge-graph and entity-resolution layers using Neo4j or similar graph databases.
• Develop structured-extraction pipelines to process messy, unstructured domain data.
• Connect and tune data pipelines from initial ingestion to relevance tuning.
• Define evaluation and quality metrics for relevance and drive measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with crawling, indexing, and ML teams to meet retrieval and ranking requirements.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with a background in search or information retrieval.
• Strong IR fundamentals including inverted indexes, BM25/TF-IDF, ranking, and evaluation (nDCG/MRR).
• Experience with vector and hybrid retrieval (ANN, dense+sparse fusion, embedding models).
• Proficiency in Python and experience with systems-level performance work.
• Authorization to work in Israel is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with entity resolution, NER, and ontology or schema design.
• Proven track record of owning relevance and ranking for a real-world product.
• Expertise in data quality, truth discovery, or trust-assessment systems.
• Published work in the fields of IR, ranking, or knowledge graphs.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities.
• International environment with talented teams and a collaborative culture.
• High degree of flexibility, trust, and real ownership over projects.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact AI projects and shape the future of the industry.