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Research Engineer, Generalist

180k – 350kSan Francisco, CAAI ResearchOnsite
Summary

Research Engineer builds and optimizes massive-scale search infrastructure including crawling, parsing, ML models, and vector databases in Rust to enhance retrieval quality for AI applications. Requires strong generalist skills, attention to detail, and ability to ship fast across systems.

About the role

Desired Experience

  • High attention to detail; simultaneously understand customer needs and implementation details of the system
  • Great intellectual horsepower - generalists who are eager to go deep
  • Excited to work across our 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

Example Projects

  • Design and ship a new parser that dramatically improves retrieval performance
  • Improve throughput and latency of ML models
  • Make our web crawler 3x faster
Skills
RustMachine LearningEmbeddingsVector DatabasesCrawlingParsingRetrieval AlgorithmsGPUDistributed Systems
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