Currently tracking 16 active AI roles, up 55% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $192k–$593k (avg $307k).
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.
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 |
| VP, Threat Research - Security Intelligence This role leads the threat research agenda for Elastic Security, focusing on AI-driven security capabilities, detection engineering, and publishing research. It involves setting strategy, defining quality bars, and acting as the external voice for the organization, with a strong emphasis on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. | Ship | 7 |
| VP, Threat Research - Security Intelligence This role leads the threat research agenda for Elastic Security, focusing on AI-driven security capabilities, detection engineering, and publishing research. It involves setting the quality bar for detections, deciding investment areas like malware and AI security, and acting as the external face of the organization. The role requires deep technical credibility in threat research, detection engineering, endpoint security, or security ML, with a focus on setting direction through expertise and influence. | Ship | 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 |