Staff Search Relevance Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Search Relevance Engineer, you'll help millions of customers find what they need quickly and easily on BestBuy.com and in our app. You'll lead efforts to make search smarter and more intuitive using semantic search, personalization, and machine learning. If you love solving complex problems and improving customer experiences, this role is for you. This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life—in our stores, online, and in customers' homes. Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™ Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Requirements
- 5 years of professional software development experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 5 years of experience with Object Oriented Software to include Java, Kotlin, or Python
- 1 year of experience with Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, OpenSearch, or other search engines or vector databases
Nice To Haves
- 7 years of relevant professional experience
- 3 years of experience with search engines or vector databases
Responsibilities
- Optimize search relevance using semantic and lexical techniques
- Design and tune ranking algorithms to improve results
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions
- Use experimentation and A/B testing to validate improvements
- Build frameworks for offline evaluation and quick iteration
- Act as a technical leader, mentoring others and influencing system design
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
