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Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)

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about 4 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$220k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the personalization and ranking behind key product surfaces.
  • Build user modeling that captures intent, preference, and propensity.
  • Design the decision layer to balance competing objectives for user experience.
  • Establish data and evaluation foundations for continuous learning.
  • Shape the technical direction of ranking, recommendations, and personalization.

Requirements

  • Deep, hands-on experience building production recommendation systems at scale.
  • Strong ML fundamentals in engagement modeling, model calibration, and metrics.
  • Experience integrating LLMs into ranking and personalization pipelines.
  • Curiosity about reimagining personalization in LLM-native products.
  • Prior experience setting technical direction for recommendation projects is preferred.

Categories

AI & MLData Science