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- This role has been open
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- Reposted
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- Salary listed
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- Ghost-job risk at Databricks
- low 0 stale, 25 reposted of 879 open
- Hiring momentum
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- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Applied AI team at Databricks, you will focus on enhancing the Search product by developing and deploying machine learning-based search relevance models. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing automated ML and NLP pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the evaluation framework for search ranking improvements.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments
- Experience applying LLM to search relevance
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Contributions to well-used open-source projects
Nice to have
- Experience in query understanding
- Experience in NLP
- Experience in text mining
- Experience in recommendations
- Experience in personalization
Worth weighing
- No specific salary or benefits details provided
- Focus on enhancing search ranking and query understanding may indicate a challenging but rewarding role
- The role involves collaboration with product managers and cross-functional teams, which may require strong interpersonal skills
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