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Early Career Research Engineer

Designs and trains embedding and retrieval models for AI agents to access web data at hyperscale, balancing research innovation with production efficiency for sub-second latency and fresh indexes.

150k – 300kPalo Alto, CASan Francisco, CAML EngineeringOnsiteEntry level

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and train models powering Parallel's APIs for AI agents to find information from the open web.
  • Tackle research problems at hyperscale: train embedding models capturing semantic intent across diverse query types.
  • Balance model expressiveness with sub-second retrieval latency.
  • Maintain index freshness for constantly updating web content without full rebuilds.
  • Build information retrieval systems for AI agents with complex, multi-hop queries using classical IR techniques and modern deep learning.

Requirements

  • Experience with information retrieval systems, embedding models, or neural ranking at scale.
  • Ability to work between theory and production, reading SIGIR/RecSys papers and debugging distributed training pipelines.
  • Thrive in solving fundamental problems for training models on billions of web documents.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity
  • Visa sponsorships
  • 401K plans
  • Daily lunch & office snacks
  • Dinner at the office
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

Skills

Information RetrievalEmbedding ModelsNeural RankingDeep LearningDistributed TrainingLLMsSemantic Search

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