Enterprise Search Tech Lead
USA 3M Company
$145,676–$178,049from the description
Jun 30, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical lead role focused on designing, building, and evolving an enterprise search platform built on AWS OpenSearch. Day-to-day work spans index design, ingestion pipelines, search APIs, and infrastructure, with a push toward hybrid lexical and vector search to support AI use cases like RAG and LLM grounding. The role also involves mentoring a team of search engineers and shaping long-term platform architecture.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,050–7,400
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD hard-requires a Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a relevant field — equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute.
The two experience gates are role-level: 5+ years of search-specific development and 7+ years of overall software engineering. The 7-year figure is used as the overall years minimum (the higher, binding gate); the 5-year search-specific requirement is a domain constraint that cannot be captured as a named-technology skill.
All named technologies appear exclusively under the 'Additional qualifications' / preferred section — none are listed under the hard-requirements block, which gates only on degree and years of experience. Every skill is therefore marked preferred.
The title 'Tech Lead' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal), so the title states no level. The scope (owning technical decisions, mentoring a team, partnering with domain architect) and the 7-year experience gate support a Senior classification.
Compensation of $145,676–$178,049 is stated as base pay plus variable incentive pay combined; the posting does not separate the two components.
Work locations listed are Maplewood, MN and Austin, TX, but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; no metro is set.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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