Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer)
Perplexity AI · Berlin
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Applied AIonsitesenior
At a glance
Highlights
- Build next-generation advanced search with focus on retrieval and ranking.
- Architect core components of the search platform and model stack.
- Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.
Ideal candidate
Self-driven researcher with deep search intuition and ownership mindset who obsesses over quality and impact. You love turning research ideas into production systems and collaborating across teams to ship fast.
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 space alignment
- Strong publication record in AI/ML conferences or workshops
- Minimum of 3 years (preferably 5+) working on search, recommender systems, or closely related areas
- Self-driven with strong sense of ownership and execution
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