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Information Retrieval Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 44+ information retrieval jobs at companies offering best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Elastic, ServiceNow, and Coinbase.

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4-day weeks (80% pay) 1
flexible hours 2
unlimited PTO 3
best places to work 35
generous parental leave 4

Updated September 12, 2026

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Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking & Retrieval

ClickUp · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$200k – $250k

Senior Software Developer - Query Engine, Database Internals

Elastic · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$128k – $203k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

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Elastic · Remote · Romania

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$326k – $516k

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Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Poland

62 · GoodBest Place to Workzł 369k – zł 584k

Machine Learning Engineer

2mo

Coinbase · Remote · India

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO₹4.4M

Machine Learning Engineer, CX Intelligence

2mo

Coinbase · Remote · Brazil

62 · GoodUnlimited PTOR$456k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

3mo

Coinbase · Remote · India

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO₹6.6M

Staff Backend Engineer, Search

3mo

ClickUp · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$250k – $300k

Senior Backend Engineer, Search

3mo

ClickUp · Remote · USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$200k – $250k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Norway

62 · GoodBest Place to WorkNOK 950k – NOK 1.5M

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Ireland

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€103k – €163k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Greece

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€73k – €116k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Spain

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€80k – €127k

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Switzerland

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Principal Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Portugal

62 · GoodBest Place to Work€67k – €106k

Principal Software Developer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$154k – $244k

Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

16d

Elastic · Remote · Greece

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

16d

Elastic · Remote · Spain

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search

16d

Elastic · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Senior Software Engineer - Vector Search - Elasticsearch

16d

Elastic · Remote · Portugal

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Information Retrieval on this page include Elastic, ServiceNow, and Coinbase. Information Retrieval roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Information Retrieval is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Information Retrieval roles span the full seniority range — we list 45 open roles requiring Information Retrieval across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Information Retrieval hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Information Retrieval roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Information Retrieval candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Information Retrieval on current listings.

Information Retrieval Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 44+ information retrieval jobs at companies offering best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Elastic, ServiceNow, and Coinbase.

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