Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning (Search)

Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed April 15, 2025

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
3
Length
589 words

In the posting’s own words

As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2025, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale.

What it asks for · 3

  • BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Experience in one or more of the following:
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.

What the job covers

  • 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.

Degree language

  • BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field.

Tools and skills named

Models & research
  • Machine learning5×
  • NLP2×
  • Evaluations
  • LLM
Data
  • Databricks6×
  • Experimentation
Languages
  • SQL
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional

Words the posting leans on

  • search9×
  • products7×
  • assets4×
  • experience4×
  • models4×
  • discovery3×
  • query understanding3×
  • building robust2×
  • collaborate2×
  • computer science2×
  • customers2×
  • data2×
  • drive2×
  • enable2×
  • nlp2×
  • pipelines2×

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