Search Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Perplexity
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Location: London
Job Description:

Search Senior Machine Learning Engineer (London, Belgrade, Berlin)

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.

Responsibilities

  • 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 optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation.
  • Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise.

Benefits

  • 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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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Posted: May 20th, 2026