Senior Search Engineer
Core
Build and improve search systems across multiple entity types, focusing on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
Role type
Senior IC search engineer
Builds
Production search systems for maps, discovery, and multi-entity search
Domain
Geospatial search, search infrastructure, ranking algorithms
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
indexing, query planning, retrieval, ranking, geospatial search, search quality metrics, experimentation, backend engineering, latency optimization, scale reasoning
Preferred skills
local search, semantic search, embeddings, personalization, Rust, heterogeneous entity types
Responsibilities
Build and improve search across multiple entity types; Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking; Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality; Run offline evaluations and production experiments; Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals; Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements