# Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) at Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) at Perplexity in Belgrade and 2 more. Hybrid, full-time. Posted March 25, 2025.

- Company: Perplexity
- Location: Belgrade and 2 more
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2025-03-25
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/0190699f-010b-44f2-8399-278899fef018/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/member-of-technical-staff-machine-learning-engineer-search-perplexity-arzzm8

## Requirements

- 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

## Description

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

- 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 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

- Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution

- Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects