Staff Engineer - Search

STAFF ENGINEER SEARCH JOB DESCRIPTION

To lead the design, development, and optimization of high-scale search and discovery systems leveraging deep expertise in OpenSearch. The Search Staff Engineer will enhance search relevance, query performance, and indexing efficiency by utilizing OpenSearchs full-text, vector search, and analytics capabilities. This role focuses on building real-time search pipelines, implementing advanced ranking models, and architecting distributed indexing solutions to deliver a high-performance, scalable, and intelligent search experience.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, develop, and maintain a scalable OpenSearch-based search infrastructure for high-traffic applications.
• Optimize indexing strategies, sharding, replication, and query execution to improve search performance and reliability.
• Implement cross-cluster search, multi-tenant search solutions, and real-time search capabilities.
• Ensure efficient log storage, retention policies, and life cycle management in OpenSearch.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and resilience.
• Design and implement real-time and batch indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Optimize schema design, field mappings, and tokenization strategies for improved search performance.
• Manage custom analyzers, synonyms, stop words, and stemming filters for multilingual search.
• Ensure search infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including encryption, access control, and audit logging.
• Optimize search for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure seamless platform delivery.
• Define and communicate a strategic roadmap for Search initiatives aligned with business goals.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand database requirements and provide technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of experience in search engineering, with at least 3+ years of deep experience in OpenSearch.
• Strong expertise in search indexing, relevance tuning, ranking algorithms, and query parsing.
• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch configurations, APIs, shards, replicas, and cluster scaling.
• Strong programming skills in Node.js and Python and experience with OpenSearch SDKs.
• Proficiency in REST APIs, OpenSearch DSL queries, and aggregation frameworks.
• Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Grafana).
• Experience managing OpenSearch clusters on AWS OpenSearch, Containers, or self- hosted environments.
• Strong understanding of security best practices, role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and IAM.
• Familiarity with multi-region, distributed search architectures.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus among stakeholders.

About Albert Invent

Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate RCD with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster.

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.
• You will enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real-world RCD and solve global challenges from sustainability to advanced manufacturing while growing your careers in a high-energy environment.

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