Member of Technical Staff, Search Ranking
ParallelAI Agents company
San Francisco, United States$401KLead
Khosla Ventures
Index Ventures
First Round Capital
Sequoia Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Develop and optimize multi-stage ranking pipeline for AI agents.
- •You will own the multi-stage ranking pipeline that narrows a web-scale set of candidates down to the handful of best passages for a query, spending the least compute necessary to do it well.
- •Key Responsibilities Push precision and recall across fast candidate retrieval, lightweight first-pass ranking, and heavier neural reranking.
- •Decide how much compute each query deserves.
- •Grade everything on real usage outcomes rather than offline proxies.
- •Requirements Deep intuition for relevance, feature engineering, and the trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost.
- •Think rigorously about how ranking, retrieval, and agent behavior inform one another.
- •Care about your research being applied to product and systems that millions use.
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowscikit-learnPandasNumPyAirflowAWSKubernetesCI/CD
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary, Generous equity, Visa sponsorships, 401K plans, Daily lunch & office snacks, Dinner at the office, Unlimited vacation, Caltrain pass reimbursement
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowscikit-learnPandasNumPyAirflowAWSKubernetesCI/CD