Perplexity

Search Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Perplexity
hybrid senior full-time Belgrade, Berlin, London
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First indexed 4 Mar 2026

Description

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking.

What you'll do

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for pushing search quality forward through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available.

  • Relentlessly push search quality forward—through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available
  • Architect and build core components of our search platform and model stack
  • Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking and classification models, including LLMs
  • Deploy models - from boosting to LLMs - in a scalable and performant way
  • Build and optimise RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation
  • Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery

What you need

  • Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics
  • Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems
  • Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution
  • Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects
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