As a Staff Search Engineer, you'll be working on building out the core search algorithm and evals for our knowledge base system. There are novel, as-yet-unsolved technical challenges here in building search algorithms for agents, rather than humans. You should be an algorithmic thinker who is excited to design new search algorithms, owning them from ideation to implementation and results.

Where you will make an impact:

• Design and implement the core search algorithm across unstructured knowledge, improving the quality of Grapevine’s ability to reason over difficult questions
• Design increasingly complex and general evaluations to define new goals to surpass
• Tune how new information sources are incorporated into Grapevine’s knowledge
• Create “digestion” systems to extract vital information from unstructured data
• Mentor and inspire other engineers to think creatively about AI applications

What you bring:

• Extensive experience with search & retrieval systems (esp. Opensearch, vector stores, PSQL)
• Experience on algorithmic engineering problems
• Experience building production-grade RAG systems (knowledge graphs, etc.)
• Comfort with hypothesis-driven research environments
• Intellectual curiosity that drives you to explore new approaches and stay current with emerging technologies
• Experience building internal tools for cross-functional organizations
• Excitement about working on a small team where your contributions have an outsized impact
• Strong debugging and investigation skills; you’re comfortable digging into an ambiguous problem statement and coming up with solutions
• A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
• Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve difficult problems without guidance
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
• An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
• You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast
• A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly

Salary Range

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $188,700 - $238,000 annually and we encourage candidates outside of this salary range to apply.