Own the multi-stage ranking pipeline for web-scale search, balancing precision, recall, latency, and compute cost across retrieval, first-pass ranking, and neural reranking.
150k – 300k
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About the role
Responsibilities
Own the multi-stage ranking pipeline that narrows a web-scale set of candidates down to the handful of best passages for a query
Spend the least compute necessary while maintaining quality
Push precision and recall across fast candidate retrieval, lightweight first-pass ranking, and heavier neural reranking
Decide how much compute each query deserves
Grade everything on real usage outcomes rather than offline proxies
Requirements
Deep intuition for relevance, feature engineering, and the trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost
Think rigorously about how ranking, retrieval, and agent behavior inform one another
Train models that serve ranking, retrieval, and agent behavior
Care about research being applied to product and systems that millions use
Skills
RankingRetrievalNeural RerankingFeature EngineeringRelevance ModelingMachine LearningInformation RetrievalLatency OptimizationCost OptimizationModel Training
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