Senior Software Developer, Search

MaintainX•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

MaintainX is a leading mobile-first work execution platform for industrial and frontline teams. More than 13,000 customers use MaintainX to cut unplanned downtime and run better operations. In August 2026, MaintainX became part of Autodesk, joining Autodesk Operations Solutions. Autodesk's strategy is to converge design, make and operate into one continuous lifecycle. The Senior Software Developer, Search will design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform, from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers. This role involves partnering with product and domain experts to model search across core entities, shipping fast and iterating rapidly, operating and optimizing distributed systems, driving architectural decisions, and owning integrations between search systems and upstream data sources. The role also includes exploring semantic search, vector retrieval, and AI-enhanced relevance, with on-call duties currently during business hours.

Requirements

Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade search systems end-to-end — including indexing, query execution, relevance tuning, and infrastructure — using technologies such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, Solr, or similar.
Understanding of embeddings, chunking, and retrieval strategies.
Familiarity with search-specific tuning: analyzers, BM25, shard sizing, cluster health, and relevance optimization.
Comfort taking systems from implementation to deployment and production operation, working across backend services, data pipelines, and integration points as needed.
An expert level of English, both spoken and written, is required, as the individual will need to lead platform engineering managers across multiple teams, present technical priorities to executive stakeholders, and align with engineering leaders outside Québec on a daily basis.

Nice To Haves

Experience evaluating and improving search relevance using both qualitative analysis and quantitative metrics.
Experience shipping AI-powered or LLM-integrated backend systems
Comfortable using modern AI tools like GPT, Copilot, or Cursor to boost productivity and streamline development.
Understanding of multi-tenancy and data security, including ACLs, field-level access controls, and secure index partitioning.
Experience building observability and success metrics into systems to monitor performance, usage, and impact.

Responsibilities

Design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform — from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers.
Partner with product and domain experts to model search across core entities like work orders, assets, and procedures, ensuring high-relevance results.
Ship fast, iterate fast, launch early versions, gather feedback, and improve rapidly.
Operate and optimize distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability under real-world load.
Drive architectural decisions, balancing correctness, performance, and long-term maintainability.
Own integrations between search systems and upstream data sources.
Explore semantic search, vector retrieval, and AI-enhanced relevance using modern ML tooling.
On-call duties (currently business hours)