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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Index

- **Company:** WAYVE LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LanceDB, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Metadata, Systems Integration, Large Language Models, Backend, Low Latency, Machine Learning Operations, FAISS, Data Selection
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_be07ad4436447c4885e100413ac512f2

## About the Role

* You have 7+ years in backend, infrastructure or ML systems, building production systems
 * You have hands-on experience with vector databases or ANN technologies such as FAISS, LanceDB or similar
 * You understand multimodal embeddings and have evaluated search quality across relevance, recall, filtering accuracy and performance
 * You code strongly in Python or another systems language
 * You have built search services, APIs, and large-scale ingestion and indexing pipelines
 * You have delivered 0*1 systems in ambiguous problem spaces
 * You are comfortable working across infra, ML and data curation, * Large-scale ML pipelines or distributed data infrastructure
 * Multimodal data, including video, images, sensor data and metadata
 * Active learning, semantic retrieval or training-data selection workflows
 * Autonomy, robotics or large-scale data infrastructure
 * Evaluating technical vendors and working with external providers

## Description

* Backend services and APIs for vector similarity, semantic retrieval and metadata-filtered search
 * Evaluating and integrating embedding models, vector databases, ANN libraries and external vendors
 * Evaluation frameworks measuring retrieval quality, recall, relevance, filtering accuracy, latency, freshness, scalability and cost
 * Integrating search into training-set construction, data curation and research workflows