# Senior Software Engineer - Search & AI

Overview: We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and run the search systems that connect Guidepoint clients with the right experts. You will join the Search team in Data Engineering and own work end to end: Elasticsearch index design and cluster operations, the inference services behind semantic search, the Python services in front of it all, and the AI features that turn a plain-language question into a ranked list of people. Our search sits on the critical path of the business. When a client asks for experts, the quality and speed of what comes back decides whether a project starts. This role is for someone who cares about relevance as much as uptime, and who can explain why a result ranked where it did. This role will be hybrid based in our Toronto office. What You'll Do: Search and indexing Design index mappings, analyzers, and tokenizers for expert, company, project, and lead data, including semantic_text and dense_vector fields Write and tune queries: bool, function_score, nested, aggregations, kNN, and hybrid retrieval Plan and run reindexes, Painless data fixes, and alias cutovers with zero downtime (we recently retired Solr completely) Build and maintain inges

- **Id**: 4260770
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/guidepoint-senior-software-engineer-search-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T15:18:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T15:22:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6664
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Market Research, Management Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 58600
- **Name**: Guidepoint
- **Domain**: guidepoint.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/guidepoint>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.579
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **A/B Testing** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Kibana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Logstash** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Pytest** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **JMeter** — Optional: yes
- **k6** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **PHP** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T15:22:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T16:36:13Z

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