Principal Data Scientist - Search Data - Remote

Overview

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

In Short

• Explore, select and benchmark open source and Elastic proprietary models
• Experimenting, evaluating and testing use cases for Generative AI including RAG, chat and agentic search
• Keeping up-to-date with the most significant recent developments in the field of NLP and information retrieval
• Engage with the NLP and information retrieval communities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of data scientists, engineers, and product managers
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration in a distributed team

Requirements

• 8+ years of confirmed experience building and applying NLP to production use cases
• 8+ years of professional software development experience in Python
• Experience in Generative AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and information retrieval
• Experience with libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, transformers, and Pandas
• Experience using collaborative notebook-based workflows (e.g. Jupyter)
• Expertise in AI/ML quality evaluation and improvement
• Self motivated, collaborative style, open communicator
• Good attention to detail and highly organized
• Real passion for data, analysis and achieving excellence
• Experience with Elasticsearch is useful

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact with financial matching for donations
• Up to 40 hours each year for volunteer projects
• Minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave