Data Scientist Search
Core
Shape how neighbors find people, places, posts, and businesses by owning data science for query understanding, content retrieval, ranking, and the end-to-end search experience.
Role type
Senior IC data scientist (search & ranking)
Builds
Online and offline ML solutions for search relevance, retrieval, and ranking
Domain
Consumer social network / Search & Information Retrieval
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Query understanding, retrieval algorithms, ranking systems, LLM application for semantic retrieval, A/B testing design, SQL, Python, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn
Preferred skills
Ranking algorithms for unstructured content, ML production model deployment, RAG system architecture
Responsibilities
Design and develop algorithms to optimize search relevance, retrieval, and ranking; Design and analyze complex product A/B tests; Build scalable metrics and dashboards to track search performance; Partner with cross-functional teams to support product development
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
