# Member of Technical Staff, Retrieval & Indexing

**Company:** [Parallel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/parallel)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Information Retrieval, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Classical Retrieval, Neural Retrieval, Full-Text Indexing, Query Serving, Source Quality Modeling, Freshness Signals, Large-Scale Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Build and operate large-scale web indexing systems including corpus selection, searchable structures, quality/freshness models, and low-latency query serving. Requires deep expertise in information retrieval and distributed systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and operate systems for large-scale full-text indexing over the web
- Decide what belongs in the corpus
- Build searchable structures that hold the corpus
- Build signals and models that judge source quality and freshness
- Serve queries against the index quickly and economically
- Anticipate bottlenecks and ensure architecture evolves to meet increasing demand

## Requirements
- Deep intuition on information retrieval, distributed systems, and performance tuning
- Ability to reason about trade-offs between classical and neural retrieval
- Ability to reason about trade-offs between cost, reliability, and latency
- Care about helping agents find the right information
- Care about infrastructure that can support products used by millions

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with large-scale web indexing systems

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