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Staff AI Engineer

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12 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of advanced query understanding systems that parse natural language and infer user intent.
  • Design and deploy learning-to-rank models that optimize relevance using behavioral signals.
  • Build and scale robust Entity Recognition pipelines for enhanced document understanding.
  • Architect next-gen search infrastructure for dynamic document corpora and real-time indexing.
  • Create and maintain graph-based knowledge systems to enhance LLM capabilities.
  • Drive improvements in query rewriting, intent classification, and semantic search.
  • Own the design of evaluation frameworks for relevance testing and model tuning.
  • Collaborate with product and research teams to translate user needs into search innovations.
  • Produce clean, scalable code and influence system architecture across the relevance stack.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's/Master's/PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in search or information retrieval.
  • Strong proficiency in Python.
  • Hands-on experience with search engines like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
  • Strong understanding of information retrieval concepts and modern neural search techniques.
  • Experience with text processing, NLP, and relevance tuning.
  • Familiarity with relevance evaluation metrics such as NDCG, MRR, and MAP.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in Knowledge Graph construction is a plus.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Tech Stack

ElasticsearchPython

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Science