P-1408 The Mission We are democratizing Data and AI for every enterprise user. Our vision is a world where anyone can master their organization’s data through Apps and AI Agents. We are building the retrieval backbone for two worlds: the high-precision context layer for AI agents and the intuitive search experience for people goal is the same: instant, accurate, and actionable insight. The Role : As a Search Quality Engineer, you sit at the heart of this transformation. You aren't just building a search engine; you are building the contextual backbone of the entire company. You will own the quality of results for two distinct but deeply connected "users": The AI Agent: Optimizing the retrieval layer that allows LLMs to reason over data they weren’t trained on, ensuring they have the "ground truth" needed to synthesize accurate, high-stakes business actions. The Human User: Improving the traditional search experience so employees can find assets and answers through intuitive, high-recall interfaces. The Technical Challenge This isn't a solved problem. You will be tackling "Search" in its most evolved form: Hybrid Retrieval: Balancing traditional keyword-based search (for exactness) with semantic vector search (for intent). Dual-Optimization: Fine-tuning ranking models that satisfy both human readability and LLM-ready context. High-Stakes Accuracy: In a world of Agents, poor search quality leads to hallucinations. You will build the guardrails and relevance scoring that ensure our AI stays grounded in reality. Data Heterogeneity: Connecting the dots across structured SQL tables, unstructured docs, and real-time business metrics. Why This is the Place to Be You will have a front-row seat to the Agentic revolution. If you want to solve the hardest problems in data discovery and see your work power the decision-making of thousands of people, let’s talk. What We’re Looking For The IR Specialist: You know your way around Lucene/Elasticsearch, embe
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P-926 The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. Databricks’ customers are continuously creating new assets (tables, notebooks, dashboards, datarooms, pipelines, sql queries, ml models etc.) on the platform. Finding an asset is a critical user journey for Databricks’ customers which helps them accomplish their tasks. As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking multiple senior engineers to drive enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2026, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale. Key Responsibilities Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services. Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines f
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Qualification
or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field; Experience applying LLM to search relevance Experience in one or more of the following: Query understanding NLP Text mining Recommendations Personalization Discovery Conversational AI Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals; government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone
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Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data + AI Platform.
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