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Applied Scientist II

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Applying LLMs to improve search relevance and automate training data generation, building neural ranking models and feature processing frameworks.

Role type

Applied Scientist II (Search & Ranking)

Builds

Large-scale neural ranking models, feature processing frameworks, and scalable ML systems for search.

Domain

Search, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLMs, transformer-based models, retrieval, ranking, neural network architectures, feature engineering, model optimization, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, distributed systems, data processing, system design

Preferred skills

reinforcement learning, online experimentation (A/B testing), user engagement optimization

Responsibilities

Apply LLMs to improve search relevance, automate training data generation, build state-of-the-art large-scale neural ranking models, develop scalable ML systems powering millions of daily search experiences.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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