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Job Description
Contribute to the org-wide shift from product-specific search solutions to a composable, agent-native infrastructure foundation that agents and applications build on to locate, search, discover, and recommend resources across heterogeneous enterprise data.
- Build and own the infrastructural substrate beneath the agentic search platform, spanning the index engine, the ingestion and enrichment pipeline, and the entity, identity, and feature intelligence that gives content context. Solve the hard problem of keeping index-time enrichments aligned with what agents expect at query time, so retrieval, ranking, and reasoning all build on a consistent foundation.
- Build and operate hybrid indexing technology at scale across large clusters, spanning keyword-based sparse-vector indices, embedding-based semantic indices, and emerging semantic-ID indexing driven by next-token prediction. Own the full index lifecycle, and expose clean, unified contracts to the search primitives and recipes that agents compose on top of the corpus.
- Design and run high-throughput ingestion and enrichment pipelines that produce a multi-representation, permission-aware corpus at index time. Orchestrate the stages that make content agent-ready, including parsing, chunking, embedding, entity resolution, and access control, and evolve them as new agentic use cases emerge.
- Build and operate multi-modal indexing across the full mix of enterprise data, from free text and structured content such as tables to diagrams, images, and audio and video. Represent each modality so it is retrievable through a unified surface, letting agents find the right material regardless of its form or source.
- Contribute to a knowledge graph that resolves entities across enterprise data sources, letting agents link disparate resources such as tickets, files, and people through canonical entity relationships.
- Improve the performance, scalability, and observability of search, including query latency, indexing throughput, and cluster health, to deliver low-latency, high-quality agentic search experiences. Apply techniques such as vector quantization to balance model quality, retrieval performance, and storage cost.
- Own search infrastructure end to end, from intake and design through rollout and ongoing operations, and help shape the search roadmap as the platform grows to support new agents, primitives, and recipes, including needs not yet anticipated.
- Drive reliability and operability across the platform through index lifecycle policies, capacity planning, and cluster scaling strategies that keep a growing library of reusable search capabilities healthy in production.
This is a highly collaborative, in-person role, working cross-functionally with Search Ranking, ML, and Platform engineering teams to deliver robust, production-grade agentic search capabilities.
Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science or an equivalent engineering background; PhD is a plus.
- 2+ years of full-time industry experience.
- Hands-on experience with search technologies; proficiency in one or more search technologies such as Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch is required, with additional experience in vector databases being an advantage.
- Excited to be part of an in-person team culture, collaborating on-site with colleagues every day.
Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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Skills Required
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent engineering background
- PhD
- 2+ years of full-time industry experience
- Hands-on experience with search technologies; proficiency in Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch
- Experience with vector databases or embedding-based indices
- Willingness to work in-person and collaborate on-site daily
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and an EAP with a defined number of free counseling visits per incident; materials also highlight mental‑health support. This breadth positions core healthcare as a strong pillar of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as substantial (e.g., 20 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non‑birthing parents) alongside fertility, adoption assistance, and caregiver resources. This combination signals robust family-oriented support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, tenure‑based vacation targets (15/18/20 days by service), and periodic company wellbeing days. Together these create multiple avenues for rest and flexibility.
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What We Do
As the AI platform for business transformation, we're putting AI to work across organizations — freeing people for work that matters. Making old tech work with new tech. Reaching across departments, from the front office to the back office and every office in between. Our ambition? To become the AI defining enterprise software company of the 21st century (or "AI DESCO21C," as we like to call it). With more than 8,400+ customers, we serve approximately 90% of the Fortune 500®, and we're proud to be a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® and World's Most Admired Companies™. Explore your future career with us, visit www.careers.servicenow.com From Fortune. ©2026 Fortune Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license.
Why Work With Us
By joining ServiceNow, you are part of an ambitious team of change-makers who have a restless curiosity and a drive for ingenuity. We're committed to helping our people do their best work and live their best lives so we can fulfill our purpose together. At the fastest-growing enterprise software company, you can grow your career faster.
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