Senior Search Engineer - London

Details

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.

Compensation and Benefits

• Cash compensation range for this role is $160,000 - $250,000.
• Equity may be part of the total compensation package.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Includes a 401(k) plan.

Perplexity has experienced tremendous growth since launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022, growing from answering 2.5 million questions per day to around 20 million daily queries by December 2024. The company has customers like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom. Significant funding has been raised from leading technology investors, fueling rapid team expansion.