Research Engineer — End-to-End Search & Retrieval

Exa; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Generalist Research Engineer in San Francisco to enhance their search engine capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work on various projects, including improving retrieval performance, enhancing ML models, and optimizing web crawling speed. Candidates must have strong attention to detail and a willingness to work across multiple systems. The company is open to sponsoring international candidates, providing an inclusive environment. Join a team dedicated to increasing the quality of information access.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand customer needs and system implementation details.
• Eager to work across search and retrieval stack including crawling and ML.
• Recognizes the significance of high-quality information in the world.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Attention to detail

Intellectual curiosity

Multi-system proficiency

Speed and efficiency focus

Job description

A technology company is seeking a Generalist Research Engineer in San Francisco to enhance their search engine capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work on various projects, including improving retrieval performance, enhancing ML models, and optimizing web crawling speed. Candidates must have strong attention to detail and a willingness to work across multiple systems. The company is open to sponsoring international candidates, providing an inclusive environment. Join a team dedicated to increasing the quality of information access.