Search Systems Developer

Initially reporting to the Sr. Director of Data Science, this position will lead the creation and deployment of search, recommendation, and LLM systems for BioMADE’s 300-member organization community and the general bioindustrial community.  Beyond search technology, the candidate will work with the BioMADE Data team to build clean, efficient, and extendable data pipelines for bioproduction-centered collaboration across industry, academia, and the Department of Defense. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize search algorithms and infrastructure to provide relevant and fast search results.
• Develop search features such as indexing, ranking, autocomplete, faceting, and query expansion.
• Build and maintain scalable, high-performance search solutions using technologies like Solr, OpenSearch, and AWS Bedrock.
• Build and maintain data pipelines to collect, process, normalize, and analyze large datasets from multiple sources.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity throughout the search and data pipelines.
• Manage stakeholder relations and requirements with staff and Members of BioMADE.
• Present solutions and findings to stakeholder and Members at all levels within BioMADE.
• Collaborate with other members of the team to provide collaborative solutions.
• Roadmapping, drafting technical specs, project scoping, and creating internal documentation.
• Other duties as assigned.