Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search)
Remote, RemotePosted 19 months ago
- Salary
- AED 30k–55k a month· est.
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Field
- AI & Machine Learning
- Work mode
- Remote
About the role
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking. Responsibilities - Relentlessly push search quality forward—through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available - Architect and build core components of our search platform and model stack - Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking and classification models, including LLMs - Deploy models - from boosting to LLMs - in a scalable and performant way - Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation - Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery Qualifications - Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics - Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems - Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution - Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects
Requirements
- Qualifications
- - Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics
- - Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems
- - Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution
- - Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects
Responsibilities
- Responsibilities
- - Relentlessly push search quality forward—through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available
- - Architect and build core components of our search platform and model stack
- - Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking and classification models, including LLMs
- - Deploy models - from boosting to LLMs - in a scalable and performant way
- - Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation
- - Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery
Skills
- large-scale search
- recommender systems
- LLMs
- RAG pipelines
- retrieval models
- ranking models
- classification models
- model deployment
- scalability
- evaluation metrics
- grounding
- search platform
- model stack
- data tooling
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