Senior Search Engineer

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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gill, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, Nvidia, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious.
Perplexity is seeking an experienced Search Engineer to shape the future of the search infrastructure that powers our products. If you\’re keen on pushing boundaries and making a significant impact, this role is for you.
Responsibilities

• Designing and building large-scale infrastructure to power crawling, ranking, and retrieval systems.
• Scaling and optimizing search engine for maximum efficiency.
• Enhancing serving infrastructure to reduce costs and latency while maintaining 99.9% uptime.
• Training and evaluating ranking models, including LLMs.

Qualifications

• Proven track record working with large-scale search and retrieval systems.
• Self-starter with a willingness to take ownership of tasks.
• Minimum of 5 years of working on search-related projects.
• Deep understanding of the search and retrieval systems.

Our cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 – $250,000.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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