Full Time

Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer) at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
Location Berlin
Level staff
Sector Technology
Posted Posted 0 days ago

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Machine Learning Research Engineer to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking.

As a key member of our Search team, you will be responsible for pushing search quality forward through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available. This includes architecting and building core components of the search platform and model stack, designing, training, and optimizing large-scale deep learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, and deploying models in a scalable and performant way.

Responsibilities:

  • Relentlessly push search quality forward , through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available
  • Architect and build core components of the search platform and model stack
  • Design, train, and optimize large-scale deep learning models using frameworks like PyTorch, leveraging distributed training (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP) and hardware acceleration, with a focus on retrieval and ranking models
  • Conduct advanced research in representation learning, including contrastive learning, multilingual, and multimodal modeling for search and retrieval
  • Deploy models , from boosting algorithms to LLMs , in a scalable and performant way
  • Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation
  • Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ensure fast and high-quality delivery

Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics
  • Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems
  • Strong proficiency with PyTorch, including experience in distributed training techniques and performance optimization for large models
  • Expertise in representation learning, including contrastive learning and embedding space alignment for multilingual and multimodal applications
  • Strong publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, SIGIR)
  • Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution
  • Minimum of 3 years (preferably 5+) working on search, recommender systems, or closely related research areas

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