Nebius

Copy of Staff / Principal Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search)

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2 months ago
Remote, EMEAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Drive applied research and technical direction across retrieval and ranking systems.
  • Design and evolve multi-stage retrieval architectures, including query understanding, rewriting, reranking, and iterative retrieval.
  • Develop methods for grounding LLMs in real-time web data at scale.
  • Define and implement evaluation paradigms and metrics for agentic systems.
  • Lead experimentation with embeddings, hybrid search, and reranking and bring successful approaches into production.
  • Analyze relevance, latency, and cost trade-offs at scale.
  • Partner with engineering to deploy systems in high-throughput, low-latency environments.
  • Own ambiguous problems end to end and contribute to product and research direction.
  • Mentor engineers and help raise the team’s technical bar.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in applied AI, ML, or software engineering.
  • Proven track record of shipping ML or AI systems to production at scale.
  • Deep experience with search, retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or assistants.
  • Strong understanding of modern deep learning, especially transformers and embeddings.
  • Experience with LLM-integrated or knowledge-intensive systems.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks and metrics for ML systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of Go, C++, or a similar language.
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment with high ownership and autonomy.
  • Experience with large-scale search or recommendation systems is preferred.
  • Background in agentic AI systems, including agents, tool use, or autonomous workflows, is preferred.
  • Experience with RAG, multi-step retrieval, or tool use is preferred.
  • Publications, open source, or similar evidence of technical depth and impact is preferred.

Benefits

  • Career growth and learning opportunities.
  • Flexibility and ownership.
  • Collaborative and innovative culture.
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects.
  • International environment and talented teams.
Nebius

About Nebius

1,001-5,000 employees

Nebius builds a full-stack AI cloud offering GPU compute, storage, and tools for training and deploying ML models for startups, enterprises, and research labs. It sells consumption-based cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) and managed services tailored to generative AI workloads, including large-scale model training and inference. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam and operates as an independent provider.

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