Sr Software Engineer, Search Relevance (applied Ai) Job in Databricks

Sr. Software Engineer, Search Relevance (Applied AI)

Location: Bengaluru, India
Company: Databricks

Role Overview

Join Databricks Applied AI team to develop and improve ML-powered search relevance systems. You will work on enhancing search ranking, query understanding, and building evaluation frameworks to enable scalable, seamless search experiences across millions of data assets on the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy ML/NLP-based relevance models integrated with Databricks products.
• Design automated pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding, ranking, retrieval, and model evaluation.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to innovate in search and discovery features.
• Build robust frameworks for offline and online evaluation of search ranking improvements.

What We re Looking For

• BS or higher (MS/PhD preferred) in Computer Science or related fields.
• 6+ years of experience developing large-scale search relevance systems or impactful research.
• Experience applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to search relevance.
• Expertise in one or more of: query understanding, NLP, text mining, recommendations, personalization, discovery, conversational AI.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Contributions to popular open-source projects a plus.

Why Join Databricks?

Work with cutting-edge AI models and a world-class team to shape the future of AI-driven data products. Databricks powers data intelligence for thousands of organizations globally and fosters an environment of innovation and collaboration.