Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking Quality - Search)

Perplexity·Belgrade·Posted 12 August 2026

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Perplexity is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to improve search quality across the middle and later stages of ranking. We are looking for a strong ranking generalist who can own ambiguous problems end to end and brings exceptional depth in either neural ranking or production ranking systems. Responsibilities - Push search quality forward through models, data, evaluation, infrastructure, or any other leverage available. - Own ranking-quality problems end to end: define the evaluation, identify the bottleneck, build the solution, and ship it safely. - Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking, and classification models, including neural and LLM-based approaches where appropriate. - Build and operate ranking infrastructure, including feature computation, low-latency inference, multi-stage cascades, deployment, and monitoring. - Make sound trade-offs across quality, latency, reliability, cost, and engineering complexity. - Collaborate across Data, AI, Infrastructure, and Product while retaining ownership of the final quality outcome. Qualifications - Deep understanding of search or recommender systems and their evaluation. - Proven ownership of a…

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