# Senior Staff Software Engineer - Search Quality

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Data Science
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Information Retrieval, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Embeddings, Ranking Algorithms, Ndcg, Mrr, Precision@K, RAG, LLMs, SQL, Vector Search
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads search quality for AI-agent retrieval and human search experiences, optimizing hybrid retrieval, ranking, relevance metrics, and evaluation frameworks. The role requires expertise in information retrieval, embeddings, Elasticsearch or Lucene, and RAG.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the quality of search results for AI agents and human users.
- Optimize retrieval layers so LLMs can access accurate ground truth for business actions.
- Improve traditional search experiences with intuitive, high-recall interfaces.
- Balance keyword-based search with semantic vector search in hybrid retrieval systems.
- Fine-tune ranking models for human-readable results and LLM-ready context.
- Build guardrails and relevance scoring to reduce hallucinations and keep AI grounded.
- Connect structured SQL tables, unstructured documents, and real-time business metrics.
- Build evaluation frameworks using human-in-the-loop and LLM-based approaches.

## Requirements
- Experience with information retrieval, including Lucene or Elasticsearch, embeddings, and ranking algorithms.
- Strong understanding of search relevance and evaluation metrics such as nDCG, MRR, and Precision@K.
- Interest in applying traditional information retrieval techniques to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

## Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to employees' regional needs.

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