# Senior Solutions Engineer

Does it sound interesting to work on an open source platform managing the data and real-time search and inference for some of the largest companies in the world? Would you thrive on working directly with engineering teams at some of the world's largest companies to design, tune and scale AI search applications running on hundreds to thousands of nodes? If so, we want you to join our team at Vespa.ai as a Senior Solutions Engineer! About Vespa.ai: Vespa.ai is a team of passionate builders. We maintain and develop the Apache 2.0 licensed open-source AI search platform Vespa. Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database. It supports vector search (ANN), lexical search, and structured data search, all in a single query. Integrated machine-learning model inference enables the application of AI to make sense of data in real time. Together with Vespa's proven scalability and high availability, this empowers to create production-ready search applications at any scale and with any combination of features. Our users and customers are #1 in e-commerce, content, and financial services globally, and are powering companies such as Perplexity, Spotify, Yahoo, Wix, and many more. In

- **Id**: 783870
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shifter-senior-solutions-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Trondheim, Norway
- **Countries**: NO
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:17:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 60
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5185
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT News & Tech Media

## Company

- **Id**: 38666
- **Name**: Shifter
- **Domain**: shifter.no
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shifter>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 87000
- **Max usd**: 203000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1900

## Technologies

- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Perplexity** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Vespa** — Optional: no
- **Apache Solr** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Service Desk** — Optional: yes
- **Slack** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: Norwegian; Level: All levels; Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T01:13:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.616
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 59
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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