Information Retrieval Engineer
Adobe
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: San Jose • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $133,900 - $242,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ApacheAWSAzureCloudDockerKafkaKubernetesNeo4jPythonSpark
About the role
- Build ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data sources
- Implement sparse and dense, semantic and lexical indexing, and metadata enrichment strategies
- Contribute to creation and maintenance of multi-modal brand-specific ontologies and graphs for context linking and disambiguation
- Ensure data freshness, versioning, and reliability in retrieval systems
- Implement hybrid search strategies using vector and graph databases to optimize precision and recall
- Optimize intelligent query understanding and planning mechanisms for enterprise-grade use cases
- Engage with product managers and engineers to align retrieval outputs with creative workflows
- Monitor retrieval system health with metrics such as accuracy, latency, and fallback rate
- Implement caching, prefetching, and de-duplication strategies to deliver low-latency, high-throughput experiences
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in information retrieval, data engineering, or ML infrastructure
- Experience in building and deploying RAG pipelines or semantic search systems using Elastic, Lucene, Vespa, Pinecone
- Expert programming skills in Python
- Experience with frameworks such as Haystack, LangChain, or LangGraph
- Extensive expertise in search result evaluation methods
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
- Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Understanding of ML pipelines, monitoring, and MLOps standards
- Preferred: Experience with graph databases (Neo4j, TigerGraph)
- Preferred: Experience with streaming platforms such as Apache Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams
- Preferred: Background in IR/NLP, search engineering, or cognitive computing
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Short-term incentives in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
- Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award
- Adobe-provided meaningful benefits (unspecified in posting)
- Accessibility accommodations for applicants (email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015)
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Hard skills
information retrievaldata engineeringML infrastructureRAG pipelinessemantic search systemsPythonHaystackLangChainLangGraphsearch result evaluation methods