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Senior Engineering Manager, AI Search & Retrieval - Services Special Projects

San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-28

Core

Architect and lead a team building a real-time, generative AI-powered search experience for high-volume structured and multimodal data, ensuring instant, relevant, and private results for millions of users.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager, AI Search & Retrieval

Builds

Large-scale, low-latency search infrastructure and user-facing generative search features

Domain

Generative AI, Information Retrieval, Search Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Information retrieval, ranking algorithms, vector databases, search infrastructure, cloud environments, containerization, streaming platforms, systems programming, ML frameworks, large-scale data processing, data privacy, safety guardrails for generative AI

Preferred skills

Deep learning architectures for search, multi-objective optimization, scaling engineering teams, infrastructure modernization

Technologies

Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, FAISS, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Go, C++, Java, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost, Spark, Flink

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for search architecture and roadmap; lead query understanding, retrieval strategy, and ranking approaches; drive offline evaluation and online A/B testing; manage and mentor a team of search engineers; represent the team in cross-functional design reviews; implement safety guardrails for generative AI outputs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management scope

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