I work at a company who's a major player in online academic publishing. We use Solr to power our main, end user-facing search after migrating from a custom Luc

I work at a company who's a major player in online academic publishing. We use Solr to power our main, end user-facing search after migrating from a custom Lucene solution some years ago. To me it seems Lucene based tools are the best for the job if the main thing you care for is having text focused search with a huge potential for extensibility. But there are a lot of use cases where you will never need anything more than the base capabilities of this technology (so you can be served by something simpler to use or maintain nowadays) and there are probably a lot of use cases where your search will be mainly driven by vector similarity (in which case you are working around the limitations of picking a technology with another focus). As far as jobs go, I'm not sure how in demand specialists are. After a few years of working in the field I had a look to see if I could leverage my experience to get a remote position and came up with pretty much nothing.