Search Engineer (Solr, Alibaba OpenSearch – Elasticsearch Service)

About the role

AVEVA is looking for a Search Engineer to join its newly created AI & Digital Delivery hub in Kuala Lumpur. You will design and deliver fast, relevant, AI‑enhanced search experiences for customer and partner portals, leveraging Solr, Elasticsearch and Alibaba OpenSearch.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement search architecture for unified partner and customer portal platforms.
• Deploy, configure and optimise Solr, Elasticsearch and/or Alibaba OpenSearch for multi‑region workloads.
• Develop search relevancy models, including scoring, boosting, synonyms and query analysis.
• Build search APIs, indexing pipelines, faceted search, auto‑complete, type‑ahead and AI‑enhanced features.
• Monitor performance, relevancy metrics and user behaviour to continuously improve search quality.

Required profile

• 5–8 years of experience in search engineering or information retrieval, including production‑scale delivery.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Apache Solr and/or Elasticsearch (cluster management, schema design, query tuning).
• Experience designing relevance models, scoring approaches, indexing pipelines and ETL processes.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as C#, Python or Java.
• Understanding of NLP fundamentals for search (tokenisation, stemming, entity recognition).

Required skills

• Apache Solr
• Elasticsearch
• Alibaba OpenSearch
• C#
• Python
• Java
• NLP (tokenisation, stemming, entity recognition)
• Cloud‑managed search services (Azure Cognitive Search, AWS OpenSearch)
• Vector/semantic search, embeddings, RAG patterns
• Kafka
• Learning‑to‑Rank models

What we offer

• Hybrid work arrangement
• Opportunity to shape AI‑enhanced search experiences for a global industrial software leader
• Collaborative, innovative environment focused on sustainability and diversity