Research Engineer for Search/IR

Virtual Vocations Inc
Boston, US
On-site

Job Description

A company is looking for a Research Engineer focused on Search/IR. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain indexing infrastructure for search systems at scale Own the entire pipeline from data ingestion to query serving Develop ranking models and improve query understanding for enhanced product quality Required Qualifications 3+ years of experience building large-scale search/information retrieval systems Hands-on experience with ranking systems and relevance scoring Ability to manage the full search stack, including ingestion, indexing, and serving Experience in maintaining freshness, deduplication, and incremental indexing Self-directed with a track record of designing and shipping experiments

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

Search systemsInformation retrievalIndexing infrastructureRanking systemsRelevance scoringData ingestionQuery servingFreshnessDeduplicationIncremental indexingExperiment designProblem solvingTeamworkSelf directionProject managementResearchEngineering

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

mid

Posted

4/12/2026

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