Research Engineer, Generalist
Generalist Research Engineer working across Exa's search and retrieval stack including crawling, parsing, ML performance, and retrieval algorithms to improve search quality and performance for customers.
About the job
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
- Work across the search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms
- Improve end quality of search endpoints for customers
Requirements
- High attention to detail; ability to simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system
- Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep
- Excited to work across search and retrieval stack: crawling, parsing, ML performance, retrieval algorithms and more
- Comfortable working across different systems, and shipping fast
- Care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building massive-scale ML systems
Compensation
- Salary range: $180,000 - $350,000
Skills
Machine Learning, Crawling, Parsing, Retrieval Algorithms, Vector Databases, Embedding Models
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