In this role you will contribute to the Elasticsearch Inference API, building integrations with external ML providers and shaping the plugin architecture. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable inference capabilities for semantic search and generative AI. You’ll participate in on-call rotations and write thorough tests to ensure robust delivery. This is an opportunity to impact how Elastic brings AI-powered search to customers at scale.
Pay / Benefits
Health coverage
Flexible location and schedules
Generous vacation days
Donation matching
Volunteer hours
Parental leave
Responsibilities
Build and maintain integrations with internal systems and external inference providers, including streaming and error normalization
Contribute to the inference plugin architecture, including task settings, chunking, rate limiting, and provider configuration
Review open source contributions to align with Elastic standards
Participate in on-call rotation for inference incidents
Write unit tests (ESTestCase), REST integration tests, and rolling-upgrade tests
Key requirements
5+ years of production Java experience
Strong knowledge of core Java, data structures, and concurrency
Experience crafting ergonomic APIs and reasoning about tradeoffs
Experience with low-level Java concepts (concurrency, parallelism, classloaders)
Proven ability to collaborate跨-functionally and work autonomously in a distributed team
Ability to drive decisions and deliver results through asynchronous communication
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