Staff Engineer - Search
Berlin, Germany; Chemnitz, Sachsen, Germany; Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
AI
About Staffbase
We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform . Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.
Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 550+ employees supports 1,500+ customers—reaching over 14 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.
As a Staff Engineer on the Search team, you'll take on one of our most important platform challenges: making every employee able to find what they need, and get a trustworthy answer, across Staffbase and the tools around it. Today search spans people, posts, pages, files and connected integrations, and it increasingly feeds AI-generated answers. You'll define how retrieval, ranking and grounded answers work at that scale.
Your north star is a search platform that finds the right thing, fast, for the right person. It must respect permissions on every query, work in every language our customers use, and give answers that cite their sources. You'll build the core, set the quality bar, and decide where we us