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Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer)

Perplexity AI · Berlin

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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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