Elastic has 28 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, which constitute 86% of their openings. The majority of these positions are within Engineering. The company is hiring across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Recurring technical tags include vector_db, RAG, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on building and deploying AI applications that leverage external knowledge.
Currently tracking 16 active AI roles, up 55% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $192k–$593k (avg $307k).
Elastic currently has 30 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch (6), Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch (5), Senior Software Engineer - SSC (4), Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic (2), Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Elastic's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (87%), application (10%), serving infrastructure (3%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Elastic is hiring AI talent in: United States (16 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles), Spain (4 roles), Canada (3 roles).
Job postings at Elastic most frequently mention: Observability, Data Governance, Content Generation, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure.
In the past 30 days, Elastic has posted 23 new AI-related roles. That is a +44% change versus the prior 30 days (16 → 23).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Security ML Research Engineer Principal Security ML Research Engineer at Elastic, focusing on developing advanced AI/ML solutions for threat detection and response. The role involves designing ML architectures, prototyping AI agent workflows, developing anomaly detection models, creating evaluation frameworks, implementing guardrails, and integrating LLM APIs into production. Emphasis on research, community involvement, and mentoring. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Agentic AI Engineer Engineer to build autonomous, enterprise-grounded agents that complete complex business tasks using the Elastic Stack, RAG, and LLM integration. | Agent |
| 9 |
| Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic This role focuses on building technical integrations and driving co-build strategies with major AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. The individual will act as a technical liaison, influence product roadmaps, and create reference architectures and prototypes to position Elasticsearch as a retrieval layer for agentic AI systems. The goal is to help customers leverage frontier AI with their unstructured data. | Agent | 8 |
| Principal AI Ecosystem Architect - OpenAI/Anthropic This role focuses on building technical integrations and driving strategy with major AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) to position Elastic's search and data platform as a retrieval layer for AI agents. The individual will own technical relationships, build prototypes, influence product roadmaps, and create go-to-market content. | Agent | 8 |
| Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch Principal Product Manager for Elastic's Agent Builder, focusing on context engineering for AI agents. The role involves defining strategy, roadmap, and execution for capabilities that make AI agents faster, cheaper, and more accurate. It requires deep understanding of the AI/ML landscape, including LLMs, RAG, and vector databases, and involves working closely with customers, sales, engineering, and data science teams. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on building new features, improving existing ones, and resolving bugs for an industry-leading vector database offering. The role involves deep technical contributions to Lucene and Elasticsearch, potentially inventing new algorithms or data structures, and collaborating with a global team and the open-source community. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Search Consulting Architect This Principal Search Consulting Architect role focuses on designing and scaling complex Elasticsearch cluster topologies for large enterprise customers, with a strong emphasis on AI-powered semantic search, vector databases, and RAG pipelines. The role involves deep technical expertise in Elasticsearch internals, performance tuning, and cloud-native infrastructure, bridging business strategy with distributed systems engineering. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Search Consulting Architect Principal Search Architect role focused on designing and scaling complex Elasticsearch clusters for enterprise customers, with a strong emphasis on AI-powered semantic search, vector databases, and RAG pipelines. The role involves deep technical expertise in Elasticsearch internals, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure, collaborating with engineering and product teams to influence the roadmap. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr. Director, Field Technology and AI Sr. Director, Field Technology and AI to lead the GTM Technology organization, focusing on accelerating and applying AI across Elastic's Go-to-Market motion. This role involves owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Engineering, Data Science, Customer Data Strategy, and Application Administration teams to drive AI-driven GTM transformation. Responsibilities include setting the AI vision for GTM, leading multi-disciplinary teams, driving AI adoption, measuring impact, and operationalizing applied AI use cases like agentic workflows and seller copilots. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer role focused on enhancing vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, aiming to create an industry-leading vector database offering. This involves designing and implementing new features, improving existing ones, and resolving bugs, with a strong emphasis on performance and relevance. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Product Manager Agents and Context - Elasticsearch Principal Product Manager for Elastic Agent Builder, focusing on defining the vision, strategy, and execution for context engineering capabilities that enable enterprises to build, manage, and scale AI agents. The role involves understanding customer requirements, market trends, and working with data science and engineering teams to benchmark and evaluate agent capabilities, with a strong emphasis on RAG architectures and vector databases. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - SSC This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the self-service cloud growth team at Elastic, focusing on human user onboarding and agent onboarding. The engineer will work as a full-stack developer, implementing scalable features and APIs, with a specific emphasis on agentic interfaces for the onboarding and trial experience. The goal is to directly influence the successful growth of Elastic Cloud by improving the customer journey. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - SSC This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the self-service cloud growth team at Elastic, focusing on human user onboarding and agent onboarding to drive customer success and trial user engagement. The engineer will work full-stack on backend and frontend features, design and implement scalable APIs, and integrate agentic interfaces into the onboarding and trial experience. Experience with React, Node.js, RESTful APIs, and production deployment is required, with bonus points for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Kubernetes. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - SSC This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the self-service cloud growth team, focusing on human user onboarding and agent onboarding to influence the growth of Elastic Cloud. The engineer will work as a full stack engineer, contributing to both backend and frontend features, designing and implementing scalable APIs, and specifically implementing agentic interfaces for the onboarding and trial experience. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - SSC Senior Software Engineer role at Elastic, focusing on the self-service cloud growth team. The role involves full-stack development for product onboarding and trial experiences, with a specific emphasis on implementing agentic interfaces to improve customer success and drive growth. The engineer will design and implement scalable features and APIs, collaborate with product managers and designers, and integrate with Elastic solution teams. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Threat Hunting and Emulation Engineer - InfoSec This Principal Threat Hunting and Emulation Engineer role at Elastic focuses on proactively defending the company's products and services by leading structured, hypothesis-driven threat hunts and adversary emulation exercises. The role involves partnering with various security teams, leveraging AI/ML for analysis, and translating findings into durable detections and hardened defenses. The engineer will also contribute to the security community through knowledge sharing. | Agent | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer role focused on Relevance in Elasticsearch, involving search engine development, vector search capabilities, and AI integration for accelerating development and optimizing code. The role requires expertise in Java, search algorithms, and experience with AI for development tasks. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer focused on Relevance within Elasticsearch, contributing to search engine capabilities, including vector search, and potentially inventing new algorithms or data structures. The role involves leading initiatives, working with a distributed team, and collaborating on open-source projects. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer focused on search relevance and vector search capabilities within Elasticsearch. The role involves contributing to the core search engine, developing new features, and leveraging AI to enhance development processes. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer role focused on search relevance within Elasticsearch, involving contributions to core search engine features, vector search capabilities, and leveraging AI for development acceleration. The role requires expertise in Java, search/vector databases, and autonomous project leadership. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer for Elastic's Search Relevance team, focusing on improving search engine speed and relevance, including vector search capabilities. The role involves leading initiatives, contributing to Elasticsearch core, and working with community members. Requires strong Java skills and experience with search or vector databases. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer role focused on Search Relevance within Elasticsearch, contributing to the core search engine, vector search capabilities, and leveraging AI for development acceleration. The role involves leading initiatives, designing and implementing new search features, and working with a globally distributed team. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Search Relevance in ES|QL - Elasticsearch Senior Software Engineer focused on Search Relevance within Elasticsearch, contributing to the AI Platform's search capabilities, including vector search, and driving technical direction for search features and enhancements. | AgentServe | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch Principal Software Engineer to enhance vector similarity search functionality within Elasticsearch, focusing on design, implementation, and bug resolution for a leading vector database offering. | AgentServe | 5 |