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Senior Search Engineer - London

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Camden Area, Camden, Greater London, England
Senior level
Camden Area, Camden, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Senior Search Engineer will design and build large-scale search infrastructure, optimize performance, and enhance serving systems. Responsibilities include scaling search engines, ensuring uptime, and training ranking models like LLMs.
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Perplexity is seeking an experienced Search Engineer to shape the future of the search infrastructure that powers our products. If you're keen on pushing boundaries and making a significant impact, this role is for you.

Responsibilities
  • Designing and building large-scale infrastructure to power crawling, ranking, and retrieval systems.

  • Scaling and optimizing search engine for maximum efficiency.

  • Enhancing serving infrastructure to reduce costs and latency while maintaining 99.9% uptime.

  • Training and evaluating ranking models, including LLMs.

Qualifications

  • Proven track record working with large-scale search and retrieval systems.

  • Self-starter with a willingness to take ownership of tasks.

  • Minimum of 5 years of working on search-related projects.

  • Deep understanding of the search and retrieval systems.

 

Our cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $250,000.

At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.

To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started. 

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

 

Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity is part of the total compensation package.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.

 

 

Top Skills

Crawling
Llms
Machine Learning
Optimization
Ranking
Retrieval Systems
Scaling
Search Infrastructure
Uptime

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