Staff AI Engineer
Core
Lead the design, development, and optimization of intelligent search systems leveraging machine learning for query understanding, ranking, and entity recognition.
Role type
Staff AI Engineer (Search & Information Retrieval)
Builds
End-to-end retrieval pipelines, learning-to-rank models, entity recognition pipelines, and graph-based knowledge systems.
Domain
Enterprise SaaS / Information Retrieval / NLP
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, Search engines (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), Information Retrieval (TF-IDF, BM25, vector embeddings, transformers), NLP, Relevance evaluation metrics (NDCG, MRR, MAP), Large-scale distributed systems
Preferred skills
Knowledge Graph construction and optimization
Technologies
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Python (via careerplan.io/jobs/8330527002-staff-ai-engineer-at-workato)
Responsibilities
Lead development of query understanding systems; Design and deploy learning-to-rank models; Build and scale Entity Recognition pipelines; Architect next-gen search infrastructure; Create and maintain graph-based knowledge systems; Drive improvements in query rewriting and semantic search; Own design of evaluation frameworks for relevance testing.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
