Staff Software Engineer, Search Quality

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RDQ326R95 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Search plays a foundational role in this mission. Whether through keyword-based retrieval, semantic similarity via vector embeddings, or hybrid approaches that combine both, our Search technologies help customers find, discover, and understand information across massive, complex datasets. These capabilities power everything from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI assistants, and recommendation systems to enterprise knowledge management, in-product search, and data exploration. As a Staff Software Engineer for Search Quality, you will drive the technical direction of ranking, relevance, evaluation, and quality initiatives across Databricks’ next-generation Search product. You’ll design and build the systems, models, and evaluation frameworks that ensure our Search stack delivers accurate, high-quality results across diverse multimodal datasets and query patterns. You’ll work across research, product, and infra to push the frontier of retrieval quality for enterprise AI applications — blending traditional information retrieval techniques, representation learning, and neural ranking. Beyond hands-on contributions, you will help define our long-term vision for relevance and quality, mentor senior engineers, and lead strategic efforts that raise the accuracy, reliability, and product impact of Search across Databricks. The impact you will have: Lead the technical vision for Search Quality, shaping the ranking architecture,

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