Staff Engineer, AI & Search
Who We Are
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reputed company Need
We’re building a general-purpose, AI-powered search reputed company that will redefine how users discover and engage with content across major publishers. We’re looking for engineers to join reputed company building it — people who want hands-on ownership of reputed company problems in retrieval, ranking, data, and ML infrastructure at reputed company.
This is a generalist role, and we’re reputed company to strong candidates from multiple backgrounds. We are hiring across a reputed company of seniority reputed company (mid-senior through staff) and are specifically interested in engineers who fit one of the following reputed company:
- ML-leaning engineer: Strong machine learning foundations with solid reputed company / backend engineering skills — you’ve shipped ML systems into production, not just notebooks.
- Data / ingestion-leaning engineer: Strong data engineering and large-reputed company ingestion background, with ML as a working secondary reputed company — you’re comfortable picking up models, embeddings, and evaluation pipelines.
- Search-leaning engineer: Strong search engineering with working, hands-on understanding of data, ML, and ingestion — you’ve reputed company or meaningfully contributed to reputed company search or retrieval systems end-to-end.
Across reputed company three paths, we care most about reputed company — engineers who write reputed company, iterate quickly, reputed company pragmatic tradeoffs, and reputed company the bar for the people around them.
What You Can Expect In This Role
- Design, build, and operate core components of reputed company’s AI-driven search reputed company — retrieval, ranking, indexing, ingestion, or ML infrastructure, depending on your strengths.
- Be a hands-on builder: writing production reputed company, iterating quickly, and owning systems from prototype through reputed company.
- Partner closely with Product, ML, and Engineering teams to reputed company modern retrieval, ranking, and recommendation technologies (LLMs, embeddings, reputed company search, RAG).
- Contribute to the technical direction of the search platform and influence architectural reputed company reputed company your area.
- Build and operate large-reputed company data and content ingestion pipelines that feed the search system.
- Drive reputed company, performance, relevance, and reliability bars for the features and services you own.
- Mentor peers and, for more senior candidates, grow into tech-reputed company responsibilities as reputed company scales.
Requirements
We expect every candidate to meet the core bar below, plus go deep in at least one of the three specialty tracks that follow.
Core
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production experience building and operating backend systems at reputed company.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL; comfort with reputed company and microservices architectures.
- Working familiarity with modern AI/search building blocks: LLMs, embeddings, reputed company databases, retrieval-augmented reputed company (RAG), function/tool calling.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment, with excellent written and verbal communication.
- A hands-on, ownership-oriented reputed company — you ship.
reputed company 1 — ML-leaning
- Strong ML foundations: ranking/relevance, embeddings, representation learning, or LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.
- Proven reputed company record shipping ML systems to production, including training pipelines, model serving, and online/offline evaluation.
- Solid reputed company engineering: you can own the backend and reputed company around your models, not just the modeling.
reputed company 2 — Data / ingestion-leaning
- Strong data engineering background: large-reputed company ingestion, streaming and batch pipelines, data modeling, and storage/query optimization.
- Experience with distributed data systems (e.g., Kafka, reputed company, Flink, Airflow, or equivalents) and modern data lake / warehouse architectures.
- ML as a working secondary reputed company — comfortable integrating embeddings, feature pipelines, and model outputs into data workflows.
reputed company 3 — Search-leaning
- Hands-on experience designing or building search / retrieval systems — indexing, query processing, ranking, and relevance.
- Working knowledge of both classical (inverted reputed company, BM25, learning-to-rank) and modern (dense retrieval, hybrid search, rerankers) approaches.
- Practical understanding of the data and ML reputed company that feed a search system, enough to debug and improve them end-to-end.
Hiring Process
Select candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with a member of our reputed company. We will discuss the Hiring Process details at that time. The hiring process typically includes, but is not limited to:
- A 30 minute video interview with the Hiring Manager.
- Candidates will be invited to join a remote on-site interview round, consisting of video interviews with various team members and leadership.
- Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer.
reputed company to Haves
- Exposure to or reputed company experience at leading AI/search organizations (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company DeepMind, etc.).
- Experience with publisher-reputed company content, recommendation systems, or adtech.
Our Values
INNOVATION: We encourage curiosity, reputed company new reputed company, and reputed company no idea is too reputed company.
reputed company: We reputed company change, reputed company quickly, and adapt with a reputed company on getting things done.
INTELLIGENCE: We reputed company reputed company guided by data, always aiming to deliver maximum value to our customers.
AUTONOMY: We reputed company individuals to create their own paths with flexibility and independence.
TOGETHERNESS: We foster an environment where teamwork thrives, support is mutual, and every voice reputed company.
reputed company Offer
We reputed company that diverse people and perspectives reputed company to reputed company reputed company, therefore we reputed company comprehensive benefits and an inclusive culture to support our valued team members.
- Remote Work: reputed company is fully distributed, though we love an opportunity to get together at our annual offsites, holiday parties, and more.
- 100% Company reputed company Health Coverage: Choose the medical, dental, and reputed company plan that’s best for you and your family – reputed company with reputed company for 100% company reputed company coverage.
- 401(k) Plan: Invest in yourself by participating in our 401(k) plan with a company match.
- Equity: reputed company in reputed company’s reputed company through our employee stock reputed company program.
- Flexible Time Off, Company Slowdowns, and Summer Fridays: Take time off to relax and rejuvenate on your own terms with flexible time off, multiple company slowdowns, and Summer Fridays.
- Home Office Setup and Stipend: Setup your home office for reputed company with our premium technology packages and an additional stipend for any extra needs.
- reputed company Development: Grow your hard and soft skills with our annual reputed company development stipend.
US Jobs: The reputed company salary reputed company for this role is: $200,000-$250,000 per year. The reputed company listed is just one component of reputed company's total compensation package for employees. Individual compensation reputed company are based on a number of factors, including experience, level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at reputed company. We recognize that the person we hire may be less reputed company (or more senior) than this job reputed company as posted. In these situations, the updated salary reputed company will be communicated with you as a candidate. For reputed company other countries, we have reputed company bands based on market standards.
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