Senior Search Engineer - London

Posted 10 Days Ago
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Camden Area, Camden, Greater London, England
160K-250K Annually
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Designing and building large-scale search infrastructure, optimizing search engine efficiency, evaluating ranking models, and enhancing serving infrastructure for a leading company in the AI-powered search industry.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 just over a year ago. Our AI-powered search assistant has amassed 10 million monthly active users as of early 2024, with our mobile apps installed over 1 million times across iOS and Android devices. In 2023 alone, we served over 500 million queries from users around the globe.


To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected investors in technology. In January 2024, we raised $73.6 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos' investment fund, NEA, Databricks, and other prominent firms. We followed that up with a $62.7 million Series B1 round in April 2024 led by Daniel Gross, valuing Perplexity at over $1 billion.
Our prominent investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals.

 

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.

 

 

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
41 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

The most powerful answer engine. Powering curiosity with answers backed by up-to-date sources. This is where knowledge begins.

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