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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Enterprise Data Intelligence - **Company:** ServiceNow - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $190,900.0 - $334,100.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Apache Lucene, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Graph Database, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Search Technologies, Apache Solr, Enterprise Data Management, Data Processing, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Indexer, AI Platforms, Information Technology, Virtual Agents, Entity Resolution, OpenSearch - **Published:** October 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-staff-agentic-search-infrastructure-engineer-moveworks-servicenow-10248862 ## About the Role * BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field; PhD is a plus. * 8-12+ years of industry experience building large-scale distributed systems, search platforms, or data infrastructure. * Deep hands-on experience with search technologies such as Lucene, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or comparable retrieval systems. * Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, including storage, indexing, serving, and data processing infrastructure. * Experience building and scaling production systems that leverage vector search, embeddings, retrieval systems, or AI-driven search capabilities. * Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams and influencing architectural decisions beyond an individual team's scope. * Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with pragmatic delivery and operational excellence., * Experience with information retrieval, ranking systems, recommendation systems, or AI-powered search platforms. * Experience with knowledge graphs, entity resolution systems, or enterprise data modeling. * Familiarity with modern retrieval approaches including dense retrieval, RAG architectures, hybrid search, and semantic indexing. * Experience operating large-scale search clusters and performance-sensitive distributed infrastructure. * Background working closely with ML or AI platform teams to productionize intelligent retrieval systems. Culture * Passion for collaborating in a highly engaged, in-person engineering culture. * Strong communication skills and a track record of influencing across organizational boundaries. * Excitement for solving foundational infrastructure problems that unlock the next generation of AI agent experiences. ## Description * Architect high-throughput ingestion and enrichment pipelines that transform enterprise content into rich, permission-aware representations optimized for agent consumption. * Define strategies for content parsing, chunking, embedding generation, entity extraction, metadata enrichment, and access control enforcement. * Ensure consistency between index-time representations and query-time retrieval mechanisms to provide reliable foundations for agent reasoning. Advance Multi-Modal Search * Lead the evolution of indexing and retrieval systems across diverse enterprise content types, including text, structured data, images, diagrams, audio, and video. * Develop unified frameworks that enable agents to discover and reason across modalities through a consistent retrieval experience. * Partner with ML and AI teams to bring emerging multi-modal capabilities into production. Drive Knowledge and Entity Infrastructure * Contribute to the design and evolution of enterprise knowledge graph capabilities that connect people, content, tickets, documents, conversations, and business entities. * Lead initiatives that improve entity resolution, relationship modeling, and contextual understanding throughout the search platform. * Enable richer retrieval and agent reasoning through high-quality enterprise knowledge representations. Scale Reliability and Performance * Own key platform metrics including search latency, indexing throughput, retrieval quality, infrastructure efficiency, and cluster health. * Drive operational excellence through observability, capacity planning, resiliency engineering, and lifecycle management. * Lead efforts to optimize infrastructure costs while maintaining high-performance retrieval experiences at scale. Technical Leadership * Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineers across the organization. * Influence roadmap and architectural direction through technical vision, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration. * Drive alignment across Search Infrastructure, Ranking, ML, and Platform teams to deliver cohesive solutions to complex engineering challenges. * Lead multi-quarter initiatives that span teams and materially advance the capabilities of the agentic search platform., We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service., For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.