Engineering Manager, Search & Context Platform
Core
Lead a technically deep group of engineers building platform systems for search infrastructure, indexing, retrieval, and context/memory primitives powering Notion's agents and 100M+ users.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Search & Context Platform
Builds
Search infrastructure (lexical & semantic), indexing systems (streaming & batch), retrieval layers, and context/memory primitives for AI agents.
Domain
Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, Large-scale Data Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Technical leadership of engineering teams, search/retrieval systems expertise (lexical, semantic, hybrid, ANN), product management for platform scope, systems judgment for scalability/security, stakeholder management with product/AI teams, hiring and team coaching
Preferred skills
Experience building agentic or tool-using systems, permissioned multi-tenant enterprise data indexing, classic information retrieval metrics, leading teams through rapid scope changes
Technologies
BM25, embeddings, vector indexes, big data pipelines, streaming/batch data pipelines, LLMs
Responsibilities
Set technical direction and roadmap balancing foundational investments with fast iteration, operate platform with high reliability (SLOs, observability, incident management), partner with product and AI teams on interfaces and capabilities, drive team growth and hiring, contribute to broader engineering practices around platform design and AI-era infrastructure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC management
