Senior Software Engineer (Search / Retrieval)

WorkatoPalo Alto, Californiafull_timesenior

Tech Stack

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Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of advanced search cluster that can scale to millions of documents across customers and data sources
  • Deploy learning-to-rank models that optimize relevance using behavioral signals, embeddings, and structured feedback
  • Build and scale robust Entity Recognition pipelines that enhance document understanding, enable contextual disambiguation, and support entity-aware retrieval
  • Architect next-gen search infrastructure capable of supporting highly dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing
  • Collaborate with product and applied research teams to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations

Soft Skills

Information RetrievalMachine LearningAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationDetail-Oriented

Benefits

  • Remote Work

Culture

Flexible HoursWork-Life BalanceInnovationTeam LeadershipCustomer-Obsessed

Requirements

Required: Bachelors/Masters/PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science, or another quantitative field
Regions: Us

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About Workato
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Workato provides enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. It is a leader in Enterprise MCP, trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, offering a cloud-native architecture for real-time orchestration at scale.

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