AI Engineer, Search
Core
Building a novel search engine that redefines how users discover and transact by creating personalized, user-controlled search experiences.
Role type
Senior AI Engineer, Search & Information Retrieval
Builds
A proprietary search engine with semantic understanding, dense retrieval, and generative interfaces.
Domain
Search technology, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Semantic search system architecture, Transformer model design (bi-encoder, cross-encoder), RAG pipeline design, Language model fine-tuning, Query understanding (intent classification, NER, semantic parsing), Production-grade system deployment, Hugging Face ecosystem proficiency, Query-level relevance evaluation
Preferred skills
PhD in NLP/IR, Research publications in IR/NLP, Multilingual NLP (European languages), Contextual signal modeling
Technologies
Hugging Face, Transformer architectures, RAG frameworks, Dense retrieval systems
Responsibilities
Build query understanding pipelines for intent classification and semantic parsing; Design and build dense retrieval infrastructure; Build re-ranking systems for result refinement; Design and operate RAG pipelines; Fine-tune pretrained language models on domain-specific data; Build precision evaluation infrastructure for query relevance.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC