Research Engineer — AI Search & Retrieval

Peak XV Partners; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Peak XV Partners in Singapore is looking for a generalist Research Engineer to join their AI-focused engineering hub. The role involves building a neural, AI-native search API designed for AI agents, not human end-users, and requires hands-on work across the retrieval stack.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate high attention to detail, intellectual horsepower, and eagerness to dive deep across crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms, delivering fast, reliable results while

Qualifications

• High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system.
• Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep.
• You're excited to work across our search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more.
• Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast.
• You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance.
• Improve throughput and latency of ML models.
• Make our web crawler 3x faster.

Job description

Peak XV Partners in Singapore is looking for a generalist Research Engineer to join their AI-focused engineering hub. The role involves building a neural, AI-native search API designed for AI agents, not human end-users, and requires hands-on work across the retrieval stack.

Ideal candidates will demonstrate high attention to detail, intellectual horsepower, and eagerness to dive deep across crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms, delivering fast, reliable results while