Senior Search Engineer - Remote

Overview

Vannevar Labs supports people on the front lines by building tools that deter and de-escalate conflict with America's adversaries. We build software and hardware for this mission that enable our customers to maintain maritime vigilance, disrupt misinformation, and collect non-traditional intelligence.

In Short

• Help craft a technical strategy for search at Vannevar, including how we leverage full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
• Improve both search latency and relevance
• Partner with other engineers, product managers, and designers to identify and quickly deliver customer value
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices; particularly within the search/information retrieval domain

Requirements

• Proven experience in software development – you have worked on business-critical systems that are deployed in production environments
• You’ve successfully led the design or architecture of new and existing system(s), ideally within the search/information-retrieval domain
• You have proficiency and experience working with search technologies, such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, Vector Databases, NLP and LLMs
• Strong leadership, teamwork, and communication skills
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel