# Senior ML Engineer, Search Optimization (Agentic Search)

The Product In a rapidly evolving world, trust in AI depends on AI agents being grounded in fresh, verified real-world data. Search is the foundation that makes this possible. We are building an agent-native search platform designed specifically for AI systems rather than human users. Our product provides programmatic, low-latency, and observable search APIs that AI agents use to retrieve, filter, and reason over real-world information at scale. The Role As a Senior ML Engineer focused on Search Optimization, you will work on improving the quality of our search product across the all parts of the search stack. You will work on problems such as query understanding, query reformulation and expansion, retrieval, ranking, reranking, and result selection. Your goal will be to identify where search quality is lost, develop better approaches, and turn them into measurable improvements in production. This is an applied ML and information-retrieval role combining experimentation with production impact. You will work with real-world queries, large-scale search systems, and evaluation signals to improve relevance, recall, freshness, and overall result quality. In this position, your responsib

- **Id**: 3742754
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tavily-senior-ml-engineer-search-optimization-agentic-search>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Countries**: IL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T10:25:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T14:59:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2824
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, AI Development Tools, AI Search

## Company

- **Id**: 6397
- **Name**: Tavily
- **Domain**: tavily.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tavily>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Neo4j** — Optional: no
- **NER** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T12:16:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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