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Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) at Perplexity
Perplexity is hiring for a full-time data role in Berlin, Germany. Review the role details, skills, seniority, and company links before applying.
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Skills mentioned
Machine Learning
Role details
Company
Perplexity
Location
Berlin, Germany
Work mode
On-site
About this role
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
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
- 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