Senior Search Engineer

IP Author

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Website: ipauthor.com
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Responsibilities

You'll design and build hybrid search intelligence that fuses classical IR with modern AI.
Build hybrid search and retrieval systems combining Solr/Elastic with vector search (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, or Chroma).
Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for complex legal and technical domains
Fine-tune and evaluate embeddings, chunking strategies, and context optimisation for high recall and relevance.
Design and optimise scalable search pipelines using Solr or Elasticsearch for multi-domain corpora (patents, legal docs, invoices, and technical literature).
Implement relevance tuning, ranking models, synonyms, boosting, and custom analysers for domain-specific search.
Manage indexing workflows (large delta updates, reindexing, and cache strategies).
Build unified APIs for search, filtering, and analytics across structured and unstructured data.
Profile, benchmark, and improve query latency, recall, and precision.
Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate search with downstream NLP and RAG pipelines.
Handle operational reliability and observability for Solr/Elastic clusters in production.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and scaling Solr or Elasticsearch-based search systems.
Proven expertise in Solr/Elasticsearch and vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc. )
Deep understanding of semantic search, RAG, and hybrid retrieval methods.
Experience designing indexing pipelines for large and frequently updated corpora.
Strong Python skills with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Familiar with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent LLM orchestration frameworks.
Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Deep debugging ability and performance tuning skills.
Comfortable working independently, owning end-to-end delivery in a startup setup.
Experience implementing MLOps practices for versioning, deployment, and monitoring.
Knowledge or prior exposure to IP / LegalTech domains.
Background in deep-tech, AI-first product companies or R& D-driven teams.

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