Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer)
Perplexity AI · Berlin
Applied AIonsitesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Help build the next generation of advanced search technologies.
- Architect core components of the search platform and model stack.
- Build RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.
Ideal candidate
Self-driven research engineer with deep passion for search quality and 5+ years building large-scale retrieval systems, driven by ownership and fast, high-quality execution.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics
- Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems
- Strong proficiency with PyTorch, including distributed training and performance optimization for large models
- Expertise in representation learning, including contrastive learning and embedding alignment for multilingual and multimodal applications
- Strong publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, CVPR, SIGIR)
- Self-driven with strong sense of ownership and execution
- Minimum of 3 years (preferably 5+) working on search, recommender systems, or closely related areas
Lab profile
About Perplexity AI
Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.
What they build
- Perplexity AI answer engine
- Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
- Comet AI browser and desktop apps
Known for
- Agentic AI and agent capabilities
- Applied AI product engineering
- Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
- Multimodal AI and integrations
Key facts
- Founded in 2022
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Serves millions of users daily
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