Full-Time

Search Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Perplexity

Company Perplexity
How You'll Work hybrid
Level senior
Sector Technology
Posted Posted on March 4, 2026

Job Description

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

What you'll do

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for pushing search quality forward through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available.

  • Relentlessly push search quality forward—through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available
  • Architect and build core components of our search platform and model stack
  • Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking and classification models, including LLMs
  • Deploy models – from boosting to LLMs – in a scalable and performant way
  • Build and optimise RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation
  • Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery

What you need

  • Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics
  • Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems
  • Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution
  • Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects

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