NLP Search Engineer

Join Vacatia and Revolutionize Vacation Discovery with NLP-Powered Search

At Vacatia, we’re redefining how travelers find and book unforgettable vacations by combining hospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology. As part of our mission to create seamless, personalized guest experiences, we’re looking for an NLP Search Engineer to lead the innovation of our search capabilities through natural language processing, semantic relevance, and AI-driven discovery.

Why You’ll Love Working at Vacatia

• Innovative Technology: Work with state-of-the-art NLP models, vector search databases like Pinecone and FAISS, and large language models to push the boundaries of eCommerce search.
• Direct Impact: Improve the way millions of guests discover resorts, destinations, and amenities, making vacation planning effortless and intuitive.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers passionate about data-driven innovation
• Growth & Learning: Explore the latest advances in machine learning and NLP while building scalable, production-ready systems. 

Your Impact

• Design and implement semantic search and ranking algorithms that deliver highly relevant, personalized search results
• Build and optimize vector search pipelines using databases like Pinecone or FAISS to enable efficient, semantic retrieval
• Leverage large language models (LLMs) to enhance query understanding, product taxonomy integration, and search enrichment
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to refine our taxonomy and metadata for improved search accuracy
• Continuously measure, test, and improve search relevance using data-driven approaches and user feedback
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to shared NLP and search infrastructure
• Stay ahead of industry trends in NLP, ML, and AI to bring innovative solutions to Vacatia’s platform

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience building NLP-powered search or recommendation systems
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with NLP frameworks like Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, or similar
• Hands-on experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, FAISS, or Weaviate
• Practical knowledge of LLMs and their applications in search or content enrichment
• Understanding of product taxonomies, entity resolution, and semantic ranking techniques
• Experience with search evaluation metrics and A/B testing in production environments
• Passion for applying cutting-edge AI to real-world business problems
• Bonus: Background in eCommerce, travel, hospitality, or consumer platforms
   

Be Part of Something Bigger

If you’re eager to shape how technology transforms vacation discovery and love solving complex problems with NLP and AI, Vacatia is the place for you.

Apply today and help us build the future of hospitality search powered by intelligent, human-centric technology.