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Software Engineer, Foundations Retrieval

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about 4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
Mid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$380k - $555k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale retrieval infrastructure across indexing, serving, and query execution.
  • Develop low-latency, high-throughput systems for real-time model interaction.
  • Partner with research to productionize embedding and retrieval techniques.
  • Support dense, sparse, and hybrid retrieval pipelines.
  • Own system performance, reliability, and observability at scale.
  • Collaborate across Pretraining, Inference, and Product teams to integrate retrieval end-to-end.
  • Contribute to model-system interfaces for agentic workflows.

Requirements

  • Experience building and scaling distributed systems.
  • Background in search, retrieval, or indexing systems.
  • Familiarity with embedding-based or ML-powered systems.
  • Experience with performance optimization and production reliability.
  • Ability to work across ML and systems boundaries.
  • First-principles thinking in ambiguous problem spaces.

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering