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# Senior Software Engineer (Search)

- **Company:** AWETOMATON LTD
- **Location:** Dayton, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $24,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Agile Methodology, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Encodings, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Security, Elasticsearch, Meta-Data Management, Natural Language Processing, Search Technologies, Apache Solr, Enterprise Search, Generative AI, Gitlab-ci, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a0ad75b00a10caff

## About the Role

* Communicate effectively in both written and verbal form with peers & decision makers
 * Demonstrate expertise in building enterprise search and retrieval systems (vector search, semantic search, RAG) across heterogeneous, multi-format data sources
 * Design indexing and retrieval architectures that maximize relevance, explainability of ranking decisions, and performance under real-time query load
 * Apply modern retrieval and ranking techniques (embeddings, vector search, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and entity resolution) to surface relevant results based on each user's role, access, and mission context
 * Tenacity when tackling data access, permissions, and compliance requirements governing what each user can discover and retrieve

Required Experience and Skills

 * BS degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
 * 6+ years of experience building and operating search, information-retrieval, or discovery platforms at scale
 * Hands-on experience with modern search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or comparable) and vector/embedding-based retrieval (e.g., a vector database or vector search library)
 * Experience applying ML/NLP techniques to search, ranking, or retrieval problems - semantic search, RAG, learning-to-rank, or relevance tuning
 * Experience designing systems that unify discovery across multiple, heterogeneous data types (text, structured data, imagery/geospatial, or similar)
 * U.S. citizenship required; must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Desired Education and Experience

 * Prior experience supporting DoW or IC programs
 * Experience with geospatial or GIS data formats and search (e.g., OGC standards, feature services)
 * Experience with access-aware or attribute-based retrieval, where results are governed by a user's role, clearance, or permissions rather than pure personalization
 * Familiarity with enterprise metadata management, data cataloging, or data governance
 * Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab CI and ArgoCD
 * Familiarity with Agile development framework

## Description

We are looking for a candidate to start in the August 2026 timeframe. This position allows hybrid flexibility but will require weekly site visits and customer meetings in Dayton, OH.


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