Principal Machine Learning Engineer- Search QualitySnowflake Computing • United States
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Principal Machine Learning Engineer- Search Quality
Snowflake Computing
- United States
- United States
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15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
Has built and optimized search systems at Snowflake-scale or equivalent high-growth environments.
Possesses a startup mindset, acting with urgency to deliver incremental improvements while building toward a long-term vision.
Is a subject matter expert in the latest developments in NLP, LLMs, and their application to Information Retrieval.
Search Domain Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with search technologies (e.g., Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector databases) and a proven track record of improving search relevance and ranking at scale.
Deep ML Expertise: Extensive experience in machine learning specifically applied to search quality, including Learning to Rank (LTR), query understanding, and personalized ranking.
Hybrid Search Techniques: Intimate familiarity with blending semantic (vector-based, embeddings) and syntactic search (keyword-based, BM25) to achieve state-of-the-art retrieval accuracy.
Data-Driven Leadership: Ability to build a disciplined approach to search quality, including the design of evaluation frameworks (e.g., NDCG, MRR), A/B testing methodologies, and human-in-the-loop evaluation pipelines.
Technical Visionary: Demonstrated ability to translate high-level product goals into technical roadmaps and influence engineering teams to execute on a unified vision for Universal Search.
AI Agentic Frameworks: A forward-looking understanding of how traditional search systems must evolve to support AI agents, specifically focusing on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and tool-use retrieval.
Distributed Systems: Strong foundation in building and scaling high-performance distributed systems that serve low-latency search results across massive, heterogeneous datasets.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to partner with and influence, Product Management and Data Science and AI team to define quality metrics and align technical investments with business impact.
NICE TO HAVE Multi-Modal Search: Experience with multi-modal search (text, image, code) and understanding of how different corpuses (like Notebooks vs. Documentation) require specialized retrieval strategies.
Open Source Contribution: Active contributions to the search or ML open-source community.
User Experience Empathy: A strong sense of how search quality directly impacts the end-user experience and the ability to advocate for the user in architectural decisions.
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