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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search

Perplexity AI
City of London
2 weeks ago
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Overview

Belgrade; London

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Senior 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

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise.

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.


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