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Staff Software Engineer - Search Platform

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bengaluru)full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer to lead enhancements to Databricks' Search quality, focusing on search ranking, query understanding, robust evals, and asset coverage to enable seamless search at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services.
  • Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration.
  • Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to drive technology-first initiatives that enable novel business strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience.
  • Contribute to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online.

Qualifications

  • BS+ (MS or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 10+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments.
  • Experience applying LLM to search relevance
  • Experience in one or more of the following: Query understanding, NLP, Text mining, Recommendations, Personalization, Discovery, Conversational AI
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.
  • Contributions to well-used open-source projects.

Skills

Required:Search relevance systemsLLM for search relevanceQuery understandingNLP
Nice to have:Text miningRecommendationsPersonalizationConversations AI

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks; region-specific details available via provided link.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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