# Staff Software Engineer - Search Quality

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

> Owns search quality across hybrid retrieval systems serving AI agents and human users. The role focuses on ranking, relevance evaluation, embeddings, and grounding RAG outputs across heterogeneous enterprise data.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own search-result quality for AI-agent retrieval and human search experiences.
- Optimize hybrid retrieval combining keyword-based and semantic vector search.
- Fine-tune ranking models for human-readable results and LLM-ready context.
- Build guardrails and relevance scoring to keep AI outputs grounded in reliable information.
- Connect structured SQL data, unstructured documents, and real-time business metrics.
- Apply traditional information-retrieval techniques to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

## Requirements
- Experience with Lucene or Elasticsearch, embeddings, and ranking algorithms.
- Understanding of search relevance and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with human-in-the-loop and LLM-based evaluation.
- Knowledge of relevance metrics including nDCG, MRR, and Precision@K.
- Ability to work with information retrieval and RAG systems.

## Benefits
- Comprehensive regional benefits and perks are offered.

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